[blindlaw] Accessibility Contact at Lexis

[denise avant]

Hello Tai,
Lexis does not have a text only page the way West law does. But the website is like any other, and so you use the various headings, links form fields, placemarkers etc that you would use on any other website. If there are frequent jurisdictions or publications you use, you will be able to place them in a tab, and add statutes reporters and alike to that tab. For example, for Illinois, I have the Illinois Compiled statutes, reporters for the 7th circuit and illinois reporters. 
As far as I know Lexis does not have specialist in accessibility the way West does. So if you get training, you will have to know your screen reader, and the trainer will do the rest. If you want to set up a favorites link with various publications anyone in lexis can show you how its done. Once its set, it will be there. if you are working on a particular issue, then you can set up alerts whenever there are cases mentioning that issue. You can have cases sent to you in different areas of the law if you wish. For example, I receive by e-mail u.s. supreme Court cases, 7th circuit cases, and Illinois State cases in criminal law each day. Its like your own advance sheet.
If you have other questions, I will try to answer them.
Hope this helps.
--- On Fri, 7/13/12, Tai Blas <taiablas at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Tai Blas <taiablas at gmail.com>
Subject: [blindlaw] Accessibility Contact at Lexis
To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
Date: Friday, July 13, 2012, 9:10 AM


Hello all. I have always preferred using Westlaw for research simply
because it seems to be more accessible with JAWS, and West has
dedicated accessibility specialists to troubleshoot issues. However, I
am constantly being admonished to learn to use Lexis as well. Does
anyone know about its accessibility with JAWS or have tips on its use?
Also,is there a Lexis representative trained on the use of JAWS or
other adaptive technology? Any contact information would be
appreciated.

Thanks.

Tai

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