[Blindmath] Sighted reading of Nemeth math

[Jared Wright]

The transcriber knows that ? and # are open and close fraction, for 
instance, and that ! is an integral. I must say that I disagree with the 
notion that the gibberish printed out from Nemeth is acceptable to give 
to a sighted professor who has no idea of Braille and expect them to 
piece it together based on context. We all want access, but remember 
that a blind student is but just one of many students, and his work 
should be no more cryptic than his peers.

Jared

On 3/13/2009 10:15 PM, Blind Collegian wrote:
> Hi,
> I appreciate your input. However, my statement regarding nemeth Code 
> making no sense to a naked eye was meant to refer to my math 
> professor, who stated that the printout cannot be discerned, so I gave 
> up. However, a certified Braille transcriber whom I spoke with said 
> the work I created in Nemeth Code on the BrailleNote "made perfect 
> sense". I wonder why the discrepancy.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Jolly" <easjolly at ix.netcom.com>
> To: <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 4:04 PM
> Subject: [Blindmath] Sighted reading of Nemeth math
>
>
>> I disagree with the claim about Nemeth math printed out from a 
>> BrailleNote
>> making "no sense to the naked
>> eye."
>>
>> If you print out Nemeth math from a BrailleNote in the original computer
>> braille (not backtranslated) it will show up as ASCII characters.  It
>> shouldn't take a math-knowledgeable sighted person more than a few 
>> minutes
>> to learn to read it.  (The reason is much of computer braille was 
>> based on
>> Nemeth math. For example, the digits and common symbols such as the plus
>> sign are identical.) Here's an article I wrote several years ago on this
>> topic that you might want to pass along to your teachers.
>> http://www.dotlessbraille.org/readnem.htm
>>
>> I'm glad to correspond with any sighted persons who need more help 
>> than is
>> in my article.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> SusanJ
>>
>>
>>
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