[blindlaw] Footnotes and Endnotes in L. Rev. articles

[Susan Kelly]

I have had this problem at work ever since I started using JAWS at work.  I will say that the nature of Word - at least on a network environment like ours - doesn't help the issue much, which may be part of the reason for the bug.  I am able to work around it only because I still retain a very small amount of semi-usable vision, so I can force things by getting my mouse somewhere in the right area to start the reading.  Not sure how much longer that will be possible, but it does speed things a little bit.

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From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Laura Wolk via blindlaw
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 7:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Footnotes and Endnotes in L. Rev. articles

Hi Chris,

I don't have much practical advice here. I had the same problem on my personal laptop. Fortunately, it doesn't seem to be a problem on my work machine or the laptop with Jaws at the law school. So, I have been lucky enough thus far to be able to solve my problem by using an alternate machine.

FWIW, when I spoke to Freedom scientific, they said this is a bug and they don't know why it happens with some copies of Jaws and not others. so the only thing I can recommend is to call FS and nag them to make fixing this bug a priority, as I imagine they may not get very many complaints about it.

Laura

On 6/19/15, Stewart, Christopher K via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> For the past year, I've simply struggled with footnotes and endnotes 
> in my law journal assignments, patiently waiting for JAWS to read 
> them. I've heard others complain of JAWS' lack of responsiveness in 
> these fields, but I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions. Is it 
> my computer? Is it Word? Is there any sort of workaround? One thing I 
> did was to copy and paste all the footnotes into the body of a second 
> document, edit them accordingly, then paste them back in, but even 
> this is clumbsy when I already have several documents open containing 
> source material, my own notes, Etc. I appreciate any advice.
>
> Best,
> Chris
>
>
>
> --
> Chris K. Stewart
> University of Kentucky College of Law, J.D. Candidate, 2016 Senior 
> Staff Editor, Kentucky Law Journal Co-President, American Constitution 
> Society President, Election Law Society California Institute of the 
> Arts, B.F.A. 2010
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