[blindLaw] Typography

[Sai]

Re Typography for Lawyers:

I was able to get a PDF copy by sending proof of purchase (of the softbound
version) to:

 stephanie.rust-small at thomsonreuters.com

I've not yet checked it in depth - I don't use NVDA / JAWS - but seems good
so far. It's partially locked down though (document modification &
extraction not allowed).

Sincerely,
Sai
President, Fiat Fiendum, Inc., a 501(c)(3)

PS Non-gendered pronouns please. NSA et al: I'm a US citizen.

Sent from my mobile phone; please excuse the concision and autocorrect
errors.

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 14:45 Sai <sai at fiatfiendum.org> wrote:

> Correction: "smart quotes" ignores trailing punctuation when
> determining if there's a following space. E.g. it works at the end of
> sentence if you have a period after the quote.
>
> You can turn smart quotes off in the word processor and/or system-wide
> keyboard settings options.
>
> Using straight quotes instead of directional (smart) quotes will never
> be wrong, it just won't look as good. Using the wrong directional
> quote is a noticeable error, though.
>
> So, if you want to avoid errors at the cost of looking a bit less
> nice, just use straight quotes for everything and turn off smart
> quotes.
>
> Sincerely,
> Sai
> President, Fiat Fiendum, Inc.
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 2:31 PM Sai <sai at fiatfiendum.org> wrote:
> >
> > On the discrimination thread, a few issues related to typography came up.
> >
> > 1. Smart quotes are in Braille.
> >
> > opening & closing single quote = ‘ & ’ =  ⠠⠦ & ⠠⠴ (that should be dot 6,
> not dot 3)
> > opening & closing double quote = “ & ” = ⠦ & ⠴
> >
> > Often straight single (') & double (") quotes are used instead, eg
> because it's easier to type and to find & replace.
> >
> > "Smart quotes" means that the software replaces the straight quotes I
> just used with “opening & closing quotes like this”, just based on spacing.
> Space before = “opening; space after = closing”; no space either side =
> straight"quotes.
> >
> > Straight single quote is identical to both apostrophe (for contractions
> like that's) and the hours symbol (as in both time and degrees of angle);
> double quotes is identical to both the vertical ditto symbol (in English)
> and minutes (again both time & angle).
> >
> >
> >
> > 2. I suggest reading Matthew Butterick's book "Typography for Lawyers",
> excerpted here:
> >
> > https://typographyforlawyers.com/toc.html
> >
> > The book itself is only available in softbound copy:
> >
> >
> https://store.legal.thomsonreuters.com/law-products/Practice-Materials/Typography-for-Lawyers-2d/p/105523076
> >
> > Perhaps some of you might contact the author & publisher to get them to
> make a blind accessible version available.
> >
> > Their emails are, respectively (in ready to paste format):
> >
> > "Matthew Butterick" <mb at typographyforlawyers.com>, "Thomson Reuters
> West accessibility" <westaccessibility at thomsonreuters.com>
> >
> > If you have success, please let me know.
> >
> >
> > 3. I'm a rare combination: fully sighted sometimes, fully blind other
> times, experienced at writing & editing legal briefs, plus some background
> in UX design.
> >
> > So, if you have questions about this kind of topic that your own
> research doesn't answer, feel free to ask me.
> >
> > I mostly use computers fully sighted at home (eg writing briefs), except
> for navigation or in normal lighting (eg taking notes in an office or
> school setting), so I'm not as well versed in eg NVDA. But I might be able
> to explain things at the intersection of sighted & blind.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Sai
> > President, Fiat Fiendum, Inc., a 501(c)(3)
> >
> > PS Non-gendered pronouns please. NSA et al: I'm a US citizen.
> >
> > Sent from my mobile phone; please excuse the concision and autocorrect
> errors.
>