[Blindmath] accessible online math resources

[Gaylen Kapperman]

Go to
                 www.tsbvi.edu
and go to the link to resources and click on that and then go to the 
link for math and then go to the link for Project Math Access and in 
that area, you will find a large piece that I have written on math 
and you can find a portion of that  on spoken math and that describes 
what all of the major symbols look like as well as how they are 
spoken and  how they are written in the Nemeth Code...that was done 
specifically for this situation  in which blind folks studying math 
need to engage the services of a sighted reader who does not 
know  mathematics well at all.
Good luck.
Gaylen Kapperman
Northern Illinois University


At 07:23 AM 5/12/2011, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
>This is a very good point. I lost at least 150 points on my math SAT,
>because I had someone write it for me, who did not even know what the
>cosine symbol looked like, kept describing the printed symbol for me,
>hoping for me to recognize it (I think it was the cosnie symbol, it
>was a while ago).
>I did take the SATs, at a U.S. military base in Iceland, so I am sure
>the standards for tests administerred within the U.S. is higher (or at
>least I hope so).
>Also keep in mind, while readers are a quick solution, sometimes
>necessary, that using readers is something you will not be able to do
>easily once you graduate. Over reliance on readers, over finding other
>ways to access math material, can free publishers and providers from
>having to think about accessibility, and once you are in a job and you
>need to brush up on something math intensive, you may have to hire a
>reader with your own money to achieve that task.
>I had issues with that in banking and I missed out on research project
>within risk management that required near instant access to an
>800-page text on measuring asset portfolio performance, because I had
>no time or options to make it accessible.
>If you have luck with demanding TeX or MathML from publishers or even
>co-workers or teachers, or scanning text with, for instance,
>InftyReader, then you have built a better foundation for you and
>others, and created increased awareness of the problem, which can be
>solved, but people are just reluctant to do so.
>This is a bit of a philosophical point, and if you need a reader, you
>need a reader, whatever gets the job done. But it is important to be
>aware of the future and thinking about how you can get to where you
>want to go in the career you choose, which sometimes may require
>campaigning for accessibility and exploring software and hardware
>options for solving the problems involved.
>End of lecture *grin*
>-Birkir
>
>
>On 5/12/11, Jerry Richer <jerry at chirpingbat.com> wrote:
> >      RFBD's stuff is all audio.  Real people reading.  Most books are read
> > by qualified people though.  The reading can get very confusing 
> at times but
> > it's the best we have for now.
> >
> >                Jerry
> >
> >
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