[Blindmath] new publication about R accessibility

[John Gardner]

Good work Jonathan!  Such articles build both awareness and understanding
about accessibility among mainstream scientists.  People are much more
willing to extend themselves to make their work accessible if they
understand how and why.

John


-----Original Message-----
From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan
Godfrey
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 4:02 PM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: [Blindmath] new publication about R accessibility

Greetings all,

For some time now, I've been working on making the R community more aware of
what R has to offer the blind community. (And vice versa also!)

Courtesy of links made via this email list and conferences/workshops
attended, I have been able to submit an article to the R Journal. 
This is the main journal where those people involved with the development of
R present their work and findings. After some refereeing processes and some
editing, I have just learned that the article will be published in December
this year.

The submission now appears online on the journal's web
site: http://journal.r-project.org/accepted/2012-14/Godfrey.pdf

This is a pre-print so the volume/issue/page numbers will change but I felt
that this community deserved to see the fruits of my labour and the snippets
of  wisdom collated over the last five or so years. 
As an academic myself, I think it is important to recognize those whose
shoulders you have stood on. Several list participants get an explicit
mention (John Gardner and Neil Soiffer) but others will know that they have
pointed me and other list members in the right direction to excellent
resources.

Let me now extend my sincere thanks to those people: John, Neil, Michael,
Susan, Dominique, and those people too numerous to name explicitly whose
feedback has been invaluable. Thank you all.

Jonathan

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Dr A. Jonathan R. Godfrey
Lecturer in Statistics
Institute of Fundamental Sciences
Massey University
Palmerston North

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