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But also braille books, his adaptive computer and his cobalt blue Light-Touch Perkins Brailler — a nine-key typewriter, not unlike a court reporter’s stenotype machine, that many experts consider essential for a blind child to access literacy.

The petitioners are seeking “an order from the California Supreme Court mandating that, when a litigant cannot afford a private court reporter, they are entitled to have the proceeding recorded at no charge, including by electronic recording if a court reporter is not available,” according to an emailed statement.

Higher pay offered by private-sector work has compounded struggles to maintain adequate court reporter staffing.

County Superior Court, emailed a statement that said the court’s leadership “is committed to fair and equal access to justice. That includes ensuring all litigants maintain their full appellate rights by having access to a verbatim record of their proceedings when a court-employed court reporter is unavailable and fundamental rights or liberty interests are at stake.”

Guest: Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times from 1978 to 2008, author and winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize.