[Blindmath] can visually impaired people study math inhigher level?

[Pranav Lal]

Hello iqbal,

Were you present at the DAISY conference held in Delhi in January? (I am not
too sure about the month). I am in India and yes we do have a few resource
teachers who know math but as far as I know we are still working on
developing accessible math books. I suspect we will go the LaTech and MathML
way. You can do quite a lot of math with a computer and geometry paper with
German film. The problem for the student is independent practice. The other
problem as others have highlighted is communicating with sighted math
teachers who are already coping with large class sizes. I see no way around
this except the use of a computer or a sighted transcriber. If a student
wants to study math, he has to create his own disability resource center.
This is what I and a few other students have done here. By a disability
resource center I mean that we have had to make our books accessible
ourselves.

I have had some success in persuading private coaching institutions at
giving me their material in electronic format. The trouble is that when I
got the material, it was in PageMaker v6.5 format and converting that to
accessible math remains an unsolved challenge.

Pranav