[blindlaw] Blue Booking

[Rahul Bajaj]

Hi,

Formatting has  always been a huge issue for me as well.
In fact, during my current internship,  I am  not being assigned certain tasks merely because they require complex formatting.  It is something  which directly exposes our weakness.
It is  undoubtably  essential to impress your bosses during an internship  in order to get a job. And this certainly doesn't help that cause in the least.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 15, 2013, at 4:54 AM, "Bill Spiry" <b.s.spiry at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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