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

[Tim Elder]

HI Chris,

I also notice that JAWS has significant delay when verbalizing the footnotes and endnotes pain.  One trick is to hold shift down when navigating.  For an unknown reason the process of selecting the text speeds up the speech processing with JAWS.  Using a braille display to review the content also helps.


-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Wolk [mailto:laura.wolk at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 7:08 AM
To: Blind Law Mailing List
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
>
>
>
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