[blindLaw] Accessing Case Text Without Citations etc.

[Julie McGinnity]

Unfortunately, the others are right. This was a great annoyance to me
too once I started law school. I would advise though either reading
the cases directly on Westlaw if you can or trying to convert the case
files into HTML perhaps. Sometimes if you get a case file taken from
Westlaw and put into Word, there are actually an unreasonable amount
of distracting things, including links in the text. Also, sometimes
case files thrown into word documents end up in columns. That was
another nasty surprise I never hope for anyone to encounter. Reading
the cases straight from Westlaw though isn't bad.

Julie

On 5/18/21, Angie Matney via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> As others have said, there's no good way to eliminate this information. If
> you are a JAWS user and you don't already do this, you might try using a
> sound scheme that announces funt and attribute changes. I find this helpful
> because hearing JAWS say that a case name is in italics helps delineate
> things for me.
>
> Best,
>
> Angie
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 18, 2021, at 5:48 PM, Syed Rizvi via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I am currently taking a law school prep course. The cases we are reading
>> are pulled from West Law. There are numerous citation numbers, footers and
>> stuff that is not the text of the case. I understand all these citations
>> etc. are important, but for my purpose, I would like to access just the
>> text of the case, as trying to listen for the text amongst all the numbers
>> is really driving me up the wall. Is there a solution to this?
>>
>> Thank you so much!
>>
>> Respectfully,
>>     Syed Rizvi
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Julie A. McGinnity
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