[Blindmath] suggestions for accessible 3d graphing paper giids

Fri Nov 22 14:33:02 UTC 2013

For 3-D graphing you need an x, y, and z axis so I don't think you will find
what we would call accessible because the z axis is technically rising up in
the air from the origin.  He will be creating graphs that look like they are
floating in the quadrant based on their coordinates. The best you may be
able to do is to put different colors on each axis x,y, and z with colored
sharpies to help him as he follows the coordinates given in the problem. If
he has trouble understanding the concepts you can re-create the quadrants by
using index cards so he can conceptualize the change in the quadrant system.
I did this years ago by putting slits halfway through index cards and then
we put them together so we could see the 8 pockets of space that now existed
because of the addition of the z axis.  Hope this helps.

Bente Casile
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From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mary
Woodyard
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Subject: [Blindmath] suggestions for accessible 3d graphing paper giids

My son will be starting a 3d graphing unit that is fairly short (2 weeks) in
about a week.  He spent some time searching online with his Math tutor for
3d Graphing paper and this is the graph paper that they found that worked
the best for his vision from what they were able to find in free 3d graph
paper options.  Does anyone know of a more accessible free (or low cost)
option?  

Thanks,

Mary Woodyard
Parent, 17 year old visually impaired student

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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:21:50 -0800
From: "John Gardner" <gardnerj at onid.orst.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Latex training
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Another suggestion.  There's lots of Latex materials on
www.access2science.com

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From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Godfrey,
Jonathan
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Hi Paul,

I haven't got access to the net with sufficient time to find the exact link
for you but look for the Summery University held in conjunction with the
ICCHP. Sessions were recorded from 2010 onwards. I'm not sure if the 2013
ones are uploaded yet but the files mentioned should all be there for
reference purposes.
J

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Subject: [Blindmath] Latex training

Hi,

I'm looking for suggestions for material, courses, tutorials or anything
else that can be used to teach a student the basics of Latex.

Paul Chapin
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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:00:00 +0100
From: Andrew Stacey <andrew.stacey at math.ntnu.no>
To: Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [Blindmath] A project to advance MathML support in browsers
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Dear all,

I'd like to bring to everyone's attention a project to advance browser and
e-reader support for MathML.  The project description itself is very
detailed, and explicitly mentions the issue of accessibility in the
motivation section.

The person behind this project is Fr?d?ric Wang.  He is one of the people
who has worked hard on MathML support in browser technology over the last
few years, so is best placed to know what the issues are and what the next
stage in development should be.  So if anyone is going to improved matters,
he's the best choice.

He's looking for funding so that he can spend some time concentrating on
MathML development and the website is on a crowd-funding site where people
can contribute.  The actual amount that he is trying to raise is not
actually all that much, particularly given the wide-ranging benefits that
could follow from this.

I hope that all of you will consider supporting this project, and that some
of you will actually do so.

The website is: http://www.ulule.com/mathematics-ebooks/

Andrew Stacey

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