[blindlaw] Lexis and Westlaw question

[Angie Matney]

Hi Jack,

I think I have the answer to your question now. I tried it, and it worked.

I have JFW 8.0. I don't know how to do this with other screenreaders. 

When you pull up a case in Lexis, you can press semicolon to go to the next on mouse over element. Since the search terms that are highlighted show up as on mouse over elements, this lets you access them quickly. Unfortunately, the page numbers 
are also on mouse over elements, so this method takes you to the next page number or to the next search term.

The colon will take you to the previous page number or search term.

Did that make sense?

Best,

Angie

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:18:15 -0400, Jack Chen wrote:

>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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