[Blindmath] Symbols in statistics

[Jonathan Godfrey]

Hi,

First let me say that the request is unnecessary (you probably know 
that), unreasonable and in the end isn't worth fighting over. Anal is 
probably the least of the four letter words I might use for analwits 
like this. Because NZ is so small, I can afford the luxury of making 
personal phone calls to lecturers who have blind students. To date, 
all my phone calls have resulted in reasonable accommodations. I am 
fairly well known across Australia and use email to offer the same 
thoughts to the staff there.

The symbols can be imported using MathType with LaTeX input - if you 
have access to MathType that is. The LaTeX commands for the symbols 
you need are fairly simple.

The Greek can be imported using standard fonts in Word. The problem 
is the bar and tilda on top of the x and mu symbols.

If you don't have MathType, then the equation editor will do the job 
for the sighted, and yes I go against all my principles and say that 
using sighted assistance is the way to go. Keep the set of useful 
symbols in a document that has been created with sighted assistance. 
Make it read only once the help is sure you've got it right. This is 
what I have done in the past and would continue to do if I used Word at all.

Once a look up table has been created you could investigate adding it 
to the autocorrect file for Word. I started this but the plan lapsed 
as I found another way of getting equations into power points (same 
issue, different software) but I know it was working for the small 
set of symbols I played with.

It might be worth showing your analwit professor that without some 
fanangling, your screen reader will not identify the difference 
between the two symbols for standard deviation in his document even 
though one is Greek and the other is the standard letter s.

Jonathan

At 09:13 a.m. 8/02/2010, you wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>So I have an anal professor for my business stats course
>who wants the appropriate symbols in answers. sigma, x bar,
>sigma squared mu etc. He has sent me a document containing
>the symbols which I am attaching here. Short of switching
>documents and copying the symbols out each time, can these
>be generated from the keyboard in Word? I tried the US
>international keyboard layout which does have some of these
>but not all.
>
>Thanks,
>Shane
>
>
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