[Blindmath] JAWS and Nemeth - Newbie question

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
I realise the following may be a brave thing to say, possibly a 
courageous thing to say, but I ask you read it all first before making a 
comment.

As worded @screen reader vendors to add Nemeth support" I definitely 
could not support or put my name to as its an excluding statement. 
Nemeth is one standard, there are other Braille codes, so its excluding 
to those who are in countries where the default Braille code taught is 
not Nemeth. As someone who lives in the UK, brought up using BAUK, this 
is why I could personally not support an exclusive call for Nemeth as it 
would be irrelevant to me.

Now this is why I asked that you should read all I am going to say 
before commenting. I am not calling for Nemeth not to be supported, but 
rather the call should not be exclusively for Nemeth support. Accepted 
supporting all Braille codes around the world may be a bit much, so a 
call for the major standards to be supported and for it to be possible 
for users to create additional tables so that others may create the 
tables for the less common codes would be a far better wording which I 
feel I could support.

Please carefully consider how you word it, try not to exclude people 
from supporting something so important.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Greg wrote:
>    Hello,
> I am all for this.  I would definently support something like this.  
> The frustration I have with the hoops I have to go thru just to take a 
> math class has nearly drove me to stop school.
> Greg Wocher
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson" 
> <birkir.gunnarsson at gmail.com>
> To: <SusanOsterhaus at tsbvi.edu>; "Blind Math list for those interested 
> in mathematics" <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 12:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] JAWS and Nemeth - Newbie question
>
>
>> What do people think about creating a web-based petition for screen
>> reader vendors to add Nemeth support for refreshable braille?
>> I know we may only get a handful of signatures but, perhaps, we could
>> get a few dozens, even a hundred. But this would create a focus point
>> for the effort and we could give a specific action item to people who
>> want to request such accessibility upgrade.
>> Instead of saying "please ask your screen reader vendor for improved
>> math support", we could say "we are collecting signatures from those
>> interested in improve math support, please go to page x and sign the
>> electronic petition if you want to help".
>> I know this worked well for the WayFinder refund demand when Vodafone
>> discontinued the product. They got almost 3000 signatures. This is an
>> entirely different beast, but the same method might work well, and
>> might help people who confuse Susan and Steve.
>> What do people think about this?
>> -Birkir