Frequently Asked Questions related to this CD

The CD contains the documents and/or the multimedia files you requested, an index page describing them, and some additional help files.

Go to the Document Index page and place the mouse pointer on the title of the document you want to view and click the mouse button. Alternatively, you can tab to the links and hit the ENTER key.

The link should take you directly to an image of the document.

Go to the Document Index page and place the mouse pointer on the title of the document you want to play and click the mouse button. Alternatively, you can tab to the links and hit the ENTER key.

The link should take you directly to a page, giving instructional directions on how to play the multimedia files.

The information in the header box includes the claimant's name, social security number, the claim types included in this case, and the date and time the compact disc was created.

The page is designed to mimic an actual paper disability folder. Each disability folder has color-coded sections that hold different types of documents.Similarly, each section on this page has different types of documents. For example, the "yellow" section entitled Medical Evidence will contain documents relevant to that topic such as Medical Evidence of Record and Consultative Examination documents.

Any person involved with the case may request a CD with the contents of a specific disability folder. Examples include the claimant, a representative payee, or an attorney.

Every version of all modern day browsers should be supported.

The paper documents are stored as TIFF files with the file extension of TIF and the multimedia files are stored as audio files with an extension of TRM.

TIFF is an acronym for Tag(ged) Image File Format. It is one of the most popular and flexible of the current public domain raster file formats.

TRM files are multimedia files that are created by For The Record.

There are many image viewers available for viewing TIFF documents. See some examples of TIFF viewers in the Getting Started page.

Use For The Record The Record Player for playing the multimedia files.

Please take note of the minimum recommended systems requirements before downloading the player.

If you are unable to view the documents you should check the Viewing Documents section of the Getting Started page.

Check that your TIFF viewer supports multi-page TIFF documents. If it does not, you will need to install one on your computer that does.