[blindlaw] Bluebook

[Tim Elder]

Love the online version.  Text formatting such as Italic and Bold is available assuming you understand screenreader verbosity settings.


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From: Laura Wolk [mailto:laura.wolk at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2015 2:54 PM
To: Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Bluebook

Michal,

I use the online bluebook quite frequently. It is very navigable, and is good for many things, including doublechecking your ordering of authorities, looking up definitions, and making sure you have all elements of a citation in the correct order.  But it does not identify all font attributes. in particular, it doesn't identify smallcaps, which is used frequently in bluebooking (if I'm wrong on this, someone please correct me.

Even if the online version did provide all info, if you have no usable vision in my opinion it is an inefficient use of time if you went through character by character trying to get down all of that information.  What I suggest is to meet with your legal research prof (or one of us) and go through the four basic forms that you will need to know in a 1L class--cases, statutes, law review/journal articles, and treatises. If you get these down, figuring out the rest along the way will not be terribly difficult, as you will get familiar with the overall structure and will also learn what to ask a sighted person when and if you need some guidance down the road.

Let me know if you'd like any assistance.

Laura

On 7/19/15, Michal Nowicki via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
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> I am starting law school in the fall, and I will need the Bluebook for 
> my legal writing class.  I know that the Bluebook is available on-line 
> through a subscription.  Have any of you accessed it using this 
> method?  If so, did you find it accessible?  Specifically, in addition 
> to eas of navigation, does JAWS identify formatting attributes (font 
> type, size, color, bold/underline/italics, etc.) correctly?  I need to 
> know this so that I can determine whether or not the subscription 
> service is a reliable version of the book when it comes to learning how to format legal documents correctly.
> Any feedback is appreciated.
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> Best,
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> Michal
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Laura Wolk
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