[Blindmath] LaTeX to braille

[Susan Jolly]

You've gotten some good information here but I do think it is essential to 
contact the student and find out what he or she has been using in the past. 
If the student has gotten into University one would assume that they have 
already developed an effective means of learning maths and are proficient in 
at least one method. This is not a simple or straightforward question and 
there are actually a number of possibilities. Michael is perfectly correct 
that the odds are that if the student is from the UK, he or she is more 
familiar with the BAUK braille maths than with the extremely different US 
Nemeth maths. However there is always the possibility that the student uses 
spoken maths rather than braille maths.  And in any case, there is the 
separate issue of access to diagrams, graphs, etc.

The visually-impaired students with whom I'm familiar who have attempted to 
learn a new methodology simultaneously with starting college have done quite 
poorly.  I would almost liken it to going to college in a foreign country 
where one does not know the language and attempts to learn the language at 
the same time as starting one's studies.

Sincerely,
Susan Jolly