[blindlaw] A question about Westlaw website

Tue Sep 16 14:26:30 UTC 2014

In your sessions with them, have they mentioned whether the company will continue the text-only site?  I can use both, but particularly when at court and relying on my iPad / VoiceOver, text.westlaw.com is still faster and more efficient.  (Juvenile delinquency practice - I am lucky if the judges have any patience at all with the delay caused by any type of assistive devices, even a human legal assistant).

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sy Hoekstra via blindlaw
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 8:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] A question about Westlaw website

Westlaw has attorneys who will set up phone appointments with their customers who have screen readers and train you on how to use their sites.
The attorneys who do the trainings were super helpful for me, and I have never had any serious problems using Westlaw Next. The trainings focus on Westlaw Next because, as they told me, the company will eventually shift entirely to that platform and eliminate Westlaw Classic, whose use is waning anyway. 

You can contact your Westlaw rep or call the reference attorney help line to set up an appointment.

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dan Beitz via blindlaw
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 1:30 PM
To: Angie Matney; Blind Law Mailing List; Susan Kelly
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] A question about Westlaw website

I use Westlaw classic with jaws for everything.  I tried text.westlaw years ago, but it didn't have all the features of Westlaw classic.  I don't know if that has changed.  Lexis was always very accessible as well, although I haven't used it much in a long time.

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-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Angie Matney via blindlaw
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 12:43 PM
To: Susan Kelly; Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] A question about westlaw website

I'm personally not a fan of text.westlaw.com, as (at least when I tried it) it seemed it did not display as much information about each search result, so I had to click on each result to determine if it was indeed relevant to me. I found this to be inefficient. I prefer Westlaw Next or Westlaw Classic. Others' experiences may vary, and maybe the presentation has changed since I used the site.

One thing that is very helpful is using the keyboard shortcuts available through your screen access technology. For example, I use JAWS for Windows, and I can use x and shift-x to move forward and backward by checkbox, respectively. There is a checkbox associated with each search result, so this gives me a quick way to move among the results. I haven't used Westlaw extensively with any other access technology, so I can't speak to available keyboard shortcuts in anything other than JAWS.

I'm glad there are several Westlaw sites so that we can each find the one that works best given particular needs and access technology.

Angie

On 9/15/14, Susan Kelly via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I was one of the test cases for Westlaw Next, and while it does work 
> fairly well with assistive technology, I still find myself preferring 
> text.westlaw.com as well.  I do not know if it is truly more 
> efficient, or if it is because I have some residual vision and thus 
> find the screen less distracting.  The only annoyance with the 
> text-only version, at least on our network, is that you MUST use a 
> client identifier / dummy identifier when logging in, or it will not 
> take your username and password.  I have not had this happen on the 
> more
"modern" versions of westlaw.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
> Stephen Alexander Marositz via blindlaw
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 11:20 AM
> To: 'Marcos Rodrigues'; 'Blind Law Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] A question about westlaw website
>
> Hi List
>
> First time posting to the list.
> The text based version works better.
>
> https://text.westlaw.com/signon/paralegalagreement.wl?bhcp=1&clickit=y
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> Stephen Alexander Marositz
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
> Marcos Rodrigues via blindlaw
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 8:28 AM
> To: Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: [blindlaw] A question about westlaw website
>
> Hi folks:
>
> Do you use west law to research court opinions?
>
> If so, can someone explain me how to do it?
>
> Regards.
> Marcos Rodrigues
> mrodrigues81 at hotmail.com
>
>
>
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