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Do not refer to it in different places as the “Jones patent,” or “Exhibit A,” because that will hamper searching by the reader.
TIP #5: Use More Images Screen-based readers don’t need
more cowbell; they need more pictures. Seek to visually engage screen readers.
One way to do this is to embed key pictures and diagrams in the text more often. The images can call the reader’s attention to key information and allevi- ate some of the monotony of text. And recall that color, high-quality images cost no more to insert into a file than a poorly photocopied eighth-generation picture. Make it look good.
Conclusion
As we write this column in the sum- mer of 2020, it is difficult, if not im- possible, to predict how different many aspects of life will be as a result of the
Covid-19 pandemic. But, even if the legal profession returns to the way it was at the end of 2019, screen reading will certainly be a part of the new norm and more likely a greater part of it. We will need to embrace it. We hope this article has provided you with skills and knowledge so you will be ready for that challenge and opportunity.
NOTES
1. See Michael Rosenwald, Print is dead. Long live print, COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REV. (Fall/Winter 2016).
2. See Order of March 20, 2020 at http:// www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/ files/rules-of-practice/Administrative- Orders/AdministrativeOrder-Modified Operations-03202020.pdf.
3. See Bradley Small, Covid-19 Update: Cov- id-19 and the Court: Part II How Appellate Court Procedures Are Changing and What May Be Here to Stay, NAT’L L.REVIEW (June
16, 2020).
4. Karen J. Sneddon & David Hricik & Karen J. Sneddon, Writing Matters: What e-Filing May Mean to Your Writing, 23 GA. B.J. 79 (April 2018); Jennifer Murphy Romig, Writing Matters: Georgia Judges on iPads: Brief-Writing for the Screen (Part One) 20 GA. B.J. 58 (Apr. 2015); Jennifer Murphy Romig, Writing Matters: Georgia Judges on iPads: Brief-Writing for the Screen (Part Two), 20 GA. B.J. 44 (June 2015).
5. Jakob Nielsen, F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Apr. 16, 2006).
6. See Charles T. Frazier, Jr., Shifting Vis- tas: Legal Writing in the Electronic Age – Part 1, 59 No. 11 DRI FOR DEF. 82 (Nov. 2017).
7.Seeid.
8. Ferris Jabr, The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper Versus Screens, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN (Apr. 11, 2013).
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