[Blindmath] Math editing and conversion

[Blind Collegian]

Hello,
Thanks for your feedback. I am wondering if anybody has ever used the
following http://www.mathxl.com/login.htm. The school wanted to know if this
works for me, but I have never used it before.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Jolly" <easjolly at ix.netcom.com>
To: <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Math editing and conversion


> 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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