[Blindmath] Accessible Physics Concepts for Blind Students

Wed Jun 15 01:26:02 UTC 2011

I work for the American printing house for the blind.  Please write me an
email at kperry at aph.org and I will get your tactile graphics request to the
right person tomorrow morning.  You can find more information about APH at
www.aph.org.

Ken  

-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Richard Baldwin
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 9:02 PM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Accessible Physics Concepts for Blind Students

Hello Lucas,

I'm new to this list and I'm not certain exactly how it works. I'm going to
hit reply and hope that does everything necessary for me to to reply to the
members of the list.

I appreciate the compliment. As you read through the material, please let me
know if you have any suggestions for improvement.

I am hard at work right now trying to find a way to incorporate tactile
graphics into the material. If you know of an organization that would be
willing to use a ViewPlus embosser to emboss SVG files for students,
preferably for free, or for a nominal fee, please let me know.

Yes, you may use my material in your project.

I am publishing this material under a Creative Commons license (see
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

I am going to copy a couple of links from the Connexions website below to
help you in that regard.

How to reuse and attribute this content (see
http://cnx.org/content/col11294/1.32/content_info#cnx_attribution_header)
How to cite  and attribute this content (
http://cnx.org/content/col11294/1.32/content_info#cnx_cite_header)

If you would like to republish the translation on the Connexions website,
I'm sure they would be happy for you to publish it there.

Wishing you the best,
Dick Baldwin

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Lucas Radaelli
<lucasradaelli at gmail.com>wrote:

> Richard,
>
> 1. The site has too many headings, and using ARIA landmarks would have
been
> better.
>
>
> I took a look at the website, and it is amazing your work, I didn't
> know it. The way it is, it is easy to navigate by headers.
>
> I also would like to know if you let me use your material in my
> project. I live in Brazil and probably a lot of blind students here
> don't know English yet, so it would be interesting to translate your
> book into my language...
>
> Thank you!
>
> 2011/6/14, Richard Baldwin <baldwin at dickbaldwin.com>:
> > I am the author of the eBook in the subject line.
> >
> > I just learned of this list and subscribed to it.
> >
> > I was happy to find several comments about my eBook and about the site
in
> > the recent archives. I have a couple of questions.
> >
> > The comments were:
> >
> > 1. The site has too many headings, and using ARIA landmarks would have
> been
> > better.
> >
> > 2. You need to locate the Navigation heading to reach the table of
> content
> > for the course.
> >
> > 3. You might consider adding information on the BrailleBlaster project,
> > which
> > will target especially STEM. There is an article on me and the project
on
> > the April DAISY Planet. To find it, look for my name.
> >
> > My questions are:
> >
> > Regarding item 1 above, does this refer to the navigational material
that
> > belongs to the site, or to the format of the modules that I have written
> and
> > posted on the site?
> >
> > I'm not familiar with the term ARIA landmarks and my first look at what
> the
> > W3C has to say about the topic wasn't very enlightening. Can someone
> point
> > me to a beginner's tutorial on the topic? If that is a better approach,
I
> > will be happy to switch to it once I know what it is and how to do it.
> >
> > Regarding item 2 above, I am assuming that this has to do with the
> > organizational structure of the site itself and not with the material
> that I
> > have posted there. Is that a correct assumption?
> >
> > Regarding item 3 above, at this point I simply don't know enough about
> > BrailleBlaster to talk about it. However, once I find a break in writing
> > technical modules for the eBook, I plan to provide a page containing a
> > variety of resources, and I will certainly include a link to the
> > BrailleBlaster site when I post those resources.
> >
> > Thanks for the comments,
> > Dick Baldwin
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