[blindlaw] Track Changes Update and E Discovery Platforms

[Elizabeth Rene]

Listmates,
I am writing to you on my iPad. It uses VoiceOver, Apple’s screen reader. I used to use JAWS, but I’ve never looked back. Recently I collaborated with a colleague on a project and he suggested I use track changes in Word. My first response was, I don’t know how to do that. JAWS didn’t do it well for me. But I didn’t want to say “I can’t“ to my colleague, so I tried track changes in MS Word using VoiceOver, and it was fun! I had a blast, and zipped right through those edits.
Sure, JAWS Is important software and keeping up one’s skill in using it is important too. But give me my iPad and VoiceOver every time!
Same goes with E discovery.
Apple’s screen reader isn’t perfect, and I get frustrated with it sometimes. But I can concentrate on the substance of my project without getting hijacked into side issues about key commands and whether JAWS will or will not let me do my work.
Don’t even get me started about the comparative price!
Bottom line for me: kick the computer and pick up the pad!
Happy holidays everyone,
Elizabeth

Elizabeth M René 
Attorney at Law 
WSBA #10710 
KCBA #21824
rene0373 at gmail.com