[blindlaw] Response to Rod Alcidonis' Westlaw post

[Craig Anderson]

By contrast, I've found the text-only version of Westlaw easy to use.  The 
absence of graphical features doesn't much matter if you've never become 
accustomed to those features in the first place.  Nonetheless, anysystem can 
be improved.  In keeping with Steve's comments I've found, in my limited 
contacts with the people at Thompson-West concerning these issues, that they 
very much want to be helpful.  Regards.

Craig
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From: "Patrick Brendan O'Reilly" <oreillpa at law.unm.edu>
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Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 11:55 PM
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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