[blindlaw] Blue Booking

[Bill Spiry]

Detail proofing for form and format with JAWS is simply a beastly time
eater. I've found that I can make it go a bit faster by laying out a pre
proofing strategy, step by step, and then sticking with it. i.e. first check
margins, 2nd check fonts, 3rd check spacing, ... 21st check italic commas,
etc. then using word search or find and replace features, I can take care of
a lot of picky stuff in big sweeps. This does require some care to ensure
the search and replace is specific enough to avoid undesired changes. JAWS
also has a nice feature which lets you proof the document for
inconsistencies like font changes, spacing issues, etc. (try pressing
control-winKey-I to walk through the inconsistencies in a doc).

With all of that, I can usually get a document cleaned up to the point where
a sighted assistant can focus on major visual proofing. 

Bottom line though is that I never ever send out a legal document to someone
without having an eyes on review by someone else. Too risky. Besides that,
the time it unavoidably takes me to proof with JAWS sure isn't a good use of
my time at my hourly rate.

Bill Spiry
Attorney at Law
(541) 510-2623
Bill at SpiryLaw.com
Bill.spiry at gmail.com 

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-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Susan Kelly
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:12 PM
To: 'Blind Law Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Blue Booking

I have the "luxury" of  using extreme magnification to sort of double-check
it myself, but I have also made sure that my secretary knows the correct
formatting so that when doing the final prep for e-filing, she also
proof-reads for me.  It is just too painfully slow otherwise.

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Webb
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:08 PM
To: 'Blind Law Mailing List'
Subject: [blindlaw] Blue Booking

Hello all,

 

Just wondered if anyone has any thoughts on blue booking (i.e., ensuring
formatting and accuracy of legal citations, etc.) through the use of a
screen reader?  While doable, I find this to be a very slow and arduous
process, and much like ensuring formatting of documents, it's hard for me to
be sure that I've really caught everything.  Also much like formatting
documents, this is one area in which I think it's wise policy to have a
sighted party perform a final review.  But I just wondered if any of you
screen-reader users had any suggestions for how to review citations in a
more efficient manner.  I find that having to ensure that every space, comma
and period is in is proper place, that all fonts are correct, to check all
this stuff by nonvisual means is just an extremely inefficient use of time.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Regards,

Andrew Webb

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