[blindLaw] Lexis and Westlaw

[Seif-Eldeen Saqallah]

Julie,

I commend and admire your efforts.
Please send an email to all the below; I have been working with them
to try to make Lexis more accessible, and Christine should be aware of
training/representative issues, as, I think she is high in that
department.
Please feel free to mention me by name, if you wish (Seif Saqallah,
University of Michigan Law Student).

LexisNexis Accessibility <accessibility at lexisnexis.com>; "Lovell,
David (LNG-HBE)" <David.Lovell at lexisnexis.com>; "Xiong, Min (LNG-LON)"
<min.xiong at lexisnexis.co.uk>, "Walker, Christine S. (LNG-DAY)"
<christine.walker at lexisnexis.com>

Sincerely,
Seif


On 9/26/20, Julie McGinnity via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. This is my first semester
> of law school, and as a part of our legal rhetoric curriculum, we have
> to do these research assignments using Lexis and Westlaw. A
> representative from each service did trainings with us, and I found
> them just short of useless as a blind person. For our first research
> assignment, I just figured out the platforms myself and gave myself
> extra time to do the work.
>
> I'm sure many of you use or have used Lexis and/or Westlaw on a daily
> basis. Any favorite tips? Any advice on which features are
> inaccessible? I really don't want to get myself into a mess, needing
> to do something on one of those platforms and finding out I can't
> access a feature with Jaws.
>
> Also, did any of you have to take trainings on the platforms as law
> students? Did you find a way to make them useful? Were you able to get
> an accommodation allowing you to skip out on the group training and
> meet with a representative individually? Are there representatives at
> these companies who know about screen reader access?
>
> I know these are a lot of questions, but I genuinely want to be
> successful at legal research. Any kind of advice or whatever you could
> give would be so helpful to this struggling 1L.
>
> Thanks much.
>
> --
> Julie A. McGinnity
> MM Vocal Performance, 2015; American University Washington College of
> Law, JD Candidate 2023
>
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Seif Saqallah
(Pronouns: he/him/his.)
University of Michigan
Juris Doctor/
Masters in Middle Eastern and North African Studies
J.D/M.A Candidate | 2021

International Studies, Arabic Studies, and Judaic Studies;
Law, Justice, and Social Change
B.A | 2017

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