[blindlaw] Lexis and Westlaw question

[Jack Chen]

Thanks Angie

I believe that you are speaking about jumping to the search results 
themselves after, say, doing a search in a particular database.  My quandary 
involves one step further.  Once you select a case, for example, the search 
terms that you had searched for are highlighted in the body of the text.  It 
is jumping to these highlighted terms that I am referring to.  If you simply 
searched for one word, then it would be a simple matter of using "find" to 
jump to the word.  However, if you do a search such as
patent w/5 "inequitable conduct"
then the find approach would result in a lot of hits that did not match the 
actual search term above.

Jack
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angie Matney" <angie at mpmail.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Lexis and Westlaw question


> Hi,
>
> In Lexis, I press "f" to go to the next form field. This takes me to the 
> check box that says, "select for focus or delivery." This is the check box 
> for the first result. You can then read through as much of the result and 
> its overview as you'd like. If you notice
> pretty quickly that it's not what you want, press "f" again to go to the 
> check box for the next result.
>
> This works with JAWS, so I'm not sure what the keystroke would be for 
> another screen reader. I find the Lexis interface to be generally easier 
> than the Westlaw interface.
>
> HTH,
>
> Angie
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:18:47 -0400, Jack Chen wrote:
>
>>Hello all
>
>>Anyone know of an easy way to jump to highlighted search results in either
>>Westlaw or Lexis?
>>I am aware of the previous and next links on the Westlaw.com site.
>
>>Thanks
>>jack
>
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