[blindLaw] bluebooking

[James T. Fetter]

At least with Jaws, you?? can also enable different voices for italics, 
bold, etc. Use alt+ jaws key (either insert or caps lock) + s to bring 
up the sound schemes feature and select proofreading attributes and font 
info. This will make Jaws almost as effective as visual reading at 
allowing you to determine what text is in italics and bold. 
Unfortunately, it does not have a voice for small caps, which is a thing 
in law review citations but not, as far as I can tell, in the real 
world. Also, Jaws has a tendency to read adjacent text in the italics or 
bold voice?? to the text that you actually italicized, if you are reading 
straight through the document.


On 8/9/2019 10:28 AM, Cody Davis via BlindLaw wrote:
> You can find the online version here: https://www.legalbluebook.com <https://www.legalbluebook.com/>
>
> It???s what I used all through law school, and it is far more convenient than the published version because it is easily searchable.
>
> As for punctuation, I found that I just had to go through my citations character by character to ensure everything is formatted correctly. If using a screen reader, there should be a function to navigate by character as well as a function to announce text attributes (i.e. italicize, font size, bold, etc.)
>
> You will find that formatting citations this way actually can give you an advantage over sighted colleagues in certain circumstances. For example, a normal comma can be indistinguishable visually from an italicized comma in some fonts. Only with a screen reader announcing text attributes would one be able to tell the difference.
>
> The only difficulty I had, but never found a great work-around for, was keeping up with page numbers in Westlaw or Lexis documents for purposes of pin cites.
>
> Hope this helps some.
>
>> On Aug 9, 2019, at 8:34 AM, Jorge Paez via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> The online form of the bluebook, on the web, is completely accessible. I recommend you get it as soon as you.can.
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Aug 9, 2019, at 8:13 AM, Sarah Badillo via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>>> Hello, I am currently in law school but have not yet found a way to
>>> properly sight my sources in briefs and other documents. I have found
>>> punctuation when using sitations to be difficult. Does anyone have a
>>> way they have found works with sighting things in articles and
>>> documents? Also, do you use a cheat sheet? or is there an accessable
>>> form of the bluebook? Thanks.
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