[blindlaw] Response to Rod Alcidonis' Westlaw post

[Rod Alcidonis]

Brendan, in this case, what have you been using to do research? Is it Lexis?

Rod Alcidonis, future ESQ.
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From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Patrick Brendan O'Reilly
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 12:55 AM
To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindlaw] Response to Rod Alcidonis' Westlaw post

I never found Westlaw's text-only option very useful. When you use the
text-only product, you lose many of the features that speed up research for
sighted users. In particular, the text-only product eliminates the ability
to "locate in result," which allows sighted users to narrow their research.
Additionally, the text-only product drops all highlighted terms and other
graphics aids that help sighted users find relevant material faster.

Unfortunately, I couldn't get either ZoomText nor Kurzweil to work well with
Westlaw's frames. I eventually wound up printing to the Kurzweil printer and
going at it that way. In terms of quickly searching for information using
Westlaw I found it to be an exercise in futility.

Brendan O'Reilly


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