[Blindmath] Maple and Mathematica

[Robin Williams]

Hi T,
Yes, you must get sighted assistance to change the settings. 
  You also asked for other package recommendations, I can suggest Matlab
which has much of the functionality of Mathematica, though is designed more
for the purpose of finding numerical solutions, unlike Maple which is a more
algebraic package. I use the back-end terminal by issuing the command,
Matlab.exe -nodesktop 
>From the command line. Again, one can supposedly configure the Java Access
bridge to use the full interface with Jaws, but I have not been successful
in doing so. Perhaps we should contact these companies to ask as to why our
attempts with the access bridge are unsuccessful, it can presumably be done
if they are prepared to publish this as a fact on their websites. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Theodor Loots
Sent: 10 January 2009 11:10
To: 'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Maple and Mathematica

Hi A,

Did you change the settings yourself, or with sighted assistance?  The
settings window isn't accessible at all, not even with the JAWS cursur.

t

-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Alastair Irving
Sent: 10 January 2009 12:24 PM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Maple and Mathematica

Hi

I use Maple 11 quite successfully.  I use the classic worksheet, and in
the settings I changed the default output notation to maple notation,
(so that all output is linear).  Then it works quite nicely with
jaws.I've seen the webpages you mention about getting the full interface
to work with the java access bridge but have never managed it myself.

HTH

Alastair

Theodor Loots wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>  
> 
> Our university has licences for Maple 12 and Mathematica 7 and so I have
> access to both, however neither of them is really accessible with JAWS
(v9).
> 
>  
> 
> Mathematica 7 has a whole lot of new features that involve text to speech
> and sound stuff, that could have promising possibilities.  I recall that
> some time ago mension was made on this list of projects that will focus on
> the accessibility of Mathematica.  The web also mension a cupple of cases
> where blind scientists make use of Mathematica, so I assume it can be
done.
> 
>  
> 
> This, I believe, is even truer for Maple.  There is even a support site
that
> mensions how to configure the JAVA access-bridge to allow JAWS access to
> Maple 9, however, I did everything that site suggested without luck.  I
> guess the way to go is to use the Classic Worksheet mode, but haven't had
> any luck with that either.
> 
>  
> 
> Are there anyone on this list that make use of either one of these
products
> or that could perhaps point me in the right direction?  Or alternatively
> suggest another package that can handle symbolic math, and also being
> accessible.
> 
>  
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> t
> 
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