[Blindmath] Hello

[Salisbury, Justin Mark]

Hi Michael,

    Did you know that there is a blind engineering professor at UCSD?  He's actually President of the NFB's Science and Engineering Division.  His name is John Miller.  You guys should get together.  

I will definitely recommend LaTeX, but I have little experience with readers.  I do know that they exist, though, and as list members go through their digests and read your email, I'm sure they'll begin suggesting them to you.  We have discussed these readers on this list.  Have you tried a reader called MathPlayer?

Good luck!

Justin

Justin M. Salisbury
Undergraduate Student
The University Honors Program
East Carolina University
salisburyj08 at students.ecu.edu

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From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Michael Chen [m11chen at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 11:33 PM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: [Blindmath] Hello

Hi all,

Just wanted to introduce myself to this list and ask for some suggestions.

I am a university student who recently lost my sight in an accident.
Previously, as a sighted student, I studyed Physics and Aerospace
Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.  I have been
completely blind since three years ago, whence I started to learn to use the
computer again with the help of a screen reader.  I have used JAWS, but
currently my primary screen reader is the open-source NVDA.  I don't know
how to breil, but I would like to learn maybe in the near future.

I am planning on returning to the university in Fall of this year to finish
my degrees, but as I am now blind, I need some help in finding the right
assistive software for my technical fields of study.  I have done some
research on LaTeX, and this seems to be what most are suggesting for
replacing traditional pencil and paper for the presentation and manipulation
of mathematical formulae which can easily be compiled into the more readable
and visually acceptable formats to exchange printed contents with sighted
students and professors.

Can anyone suggest a good and user friendly LaTeX editor which works well
with NVDA and can also convert and print out easily readable math content?
Also, what would be a good place to start, either website or book or some
other documentation, that I can get my feet wet learning the basics of
LaTeX?

Thanks.

Sincerely,
mike


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