[blindlaw] Response to Rod Alcidonis' Westlaw post

[Michael O. Hanson]

Have you tried to use JAWS with Westlaw?  I have found that effective using 
either text only or their normal website.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Brendan O'Reilly" <oreillpa at law.unm.edu>
To: <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
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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