[blindlaw] Research and screen readers

[Jon Schorsch]

Chris,

I am a second year law student at Seattle University and use JAWS with West
Law Next exclusively.  I am recently blind from an accident and I am still
learning all of the fine details of using JAWS, but I find that I have very
little trouble researching and finding specific issues.  When I first
started school, I sat down with the West Law trainer and he recommended West
Law Next over West Law because he said it was a little more straight forward
than West Law.  Hope this helps.

Jon Schorsch  

Jon Schorsch 
 -----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jeckel,
Christopher
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:16 AM
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Subject: [blindlaw] Research and screen readers

Hey Gang,

So the tech support folks at G.W. Micro have explained to me that the
function on WindowEyes which allows a user to hover the mouse over text for
audio feedback will most likely not be compatible with most online browsers
in a few years.  Reason being is because of the new way Microsoft is writing
code for windows.  The program will still work fine, just not with the hover
function.  What this means for me and other partially sighted WindowEyes
users is that we will have to learn how to use WindowEyes or Jaws only using
the key commands, hot keys etc. 

My question for you all is when doing legal research, have you found any
particular combination of Jaws or WindowEyes with Lexis or WestLaw to be the
most efficient?  Do you find one legal database easier to navigate with a
screen reader than the other using key commands, hot keys, etc.? 

Love you guys,
Chris 


 

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