[Blindmath] accessible online math resources

[Birkir R. Gunnarsson]

Gaylen

Great resource, not sure why I have not already read this at some point.
A few comments and suggestions come to mind as I read through this.
If you are, or foresee you may be, updating and adding facts, ideas
and other material, I could certainly make a list of suggestions as I
read through this.
As it is, it's very helpful and a good resource, and I will need a few
days to read through it all. :)
Thanks
-Birkir


On 5/12/11, Gaylen Kapperman <gkapperman at niu.edu> wrote:
> 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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