[Blindmath] Math editing and conversion

[Gaylen Kapperman]

Susan, you are so right!
Gaylen Kapperman

At 02:56 PM 2/8/2009, you wrote:
>I'm very impressed with the ingenuity being used by list members.
>
>I know that this is an international list but still feel the need to repeat
>for US students that it is illegal for your institution of higher learning
>to force you to make these accommodations on your own.
>
>To quote an expert in the US law in this area: "A student does not have to
>produce responses in a form the professor can read so long as the means the
>student uses is considered standard and can be rendered into standard
>written form by any person trained to use that method."  In other words, it
>is perfectly legal to make a graph by sticking WikiStix on a tactile graph
>with braille labels and leave it to the college to get it interpreted by a
>trained person.  (If you choose to be that trained person, they should at
>least pay you as much as they pay other student help.)
>
>I do understand that braille-using students want to be independent.
>However, the main goal of college courses is to learn the subject matter.
>If you are spending anything more that a small fraction of your valuable
>time doing things that don't contribute to learning the course material,
>something is wrong. This is especially important in a mathematics course as
>there is a shortage of people who understand mathematics. Moreover, you may
>well be making it harder for the next student.
>
>SusanJ
>
>
>
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