[blindlaw] Citations

[Gerard Sadlier]

Hi Rahul,

Jaws can be unresponsive with footnotes, especially in big documents.
However, this shouldn't be normal. Perhaps there is a problem with
JAWS?

Ger

On 9/28/14, Derek Manners via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I'm not a jaws user but one suggestion I'd have at least to make the Jaws
> part more manageable is to create a second word document with the footnotes
> but just have them as main text in list form until you are ready to put then
> in the paper. Then you'd just have to copy paste once they are formatted
> perfectly after you've written the paper.
>
> As for the bluebook, I know they have electronic versions that I believe are
> JAWS friendly and also searchable.
>
> But I'm sure others have more experience/better advice.
>
> Best
> Derek Manners
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Sep 28, 2014, at 3:19 AM, Rahul Bajaj via blindlaw
>> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I hope this message finds you well. I sometimes find it hard  to cite
>> sources correctly in  my research papers. Citing cases is not difficult,
>> but I struggle with news articles, research papers in journals, etc. Even
>> though I have repeatedly gone through the nineteenth edition of the blue
>> book, I haven't been able to fully internalize the myriad citation
>> techniques.
>> This problem is further exacerbated by the fact that JAWS acts in a very
>> sluggish and unresponsive manner when you try to access or modify
>> footnotes, so this makes the experience all the more unpleasant.
>> The upshot of this problem is that my research papers usually contain very
>> few footnotes- nothing more than fifteen or twenty. As you can imagine,
>> this greatly reduces the quality and veracity of the paper.
>> I would love to know what strategies you guys employ for grappling with
>> this issue.
>>
>> Best,
>> Rahul
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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