[Blindmath] mayple

[Robert Guyette via Blindmath]

Hi ther

You can use the jaws cursor to read the eqations.

Thanks

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 14, 2014, at 8:42 PM, Dániel Hajas via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Richard,
> 
> I am a first year theoretical physics student as well at the university of
> Sussex. We had to use Maple in term 1 and my experiences are not very
> bright.
> 
> Though there are some accessibility concerns with regards JAWS on
> Maplesoft's website and we have been in contact with them, I don't think the
> software is fully accessible.
> 
> One step forward seemed to be to change from the standard interface to the
> classic one, hence the menus were accessible and I had feetback on what I am
> writing but the answers could not be read. Especially things like fractions
> or 2D structures.
> 
> Near the end of term I was advised to try it in command line mode; however,
> at the meantime I started to use Python, which is just as powerful if not
> even more as Maple for the tasks we had to use, so haven't checked the
> command line mode afterall. 
> 
> Have you had the chance to try the command line yet? I would be interested
> how that works, even though I am very satisfied with Python so far and it
> seems a good alternative instead of using Maple.
> 
> One big disadvantage with Maple was that I could not read the MWS files
> given to u sas worksheets, thus I needed a sighted person to read those
> instructions.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Daniel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Wheatley,
> Richard
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:47 AM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Subject: [Blindmath] mayple
> 
> Hello everyone,
> I am a first year theoretical physicist at Lancaster university, I posted a
> while ago about the accessability of maple, I was told that it was good but
> now I find that jaws doesn't seem to detect what I write in it. Or rather,
> it reads as I write but if I try to read back the equation, or if I try to
> do something unusual like read the anser, jaws is silent. Does anyone know
> what can be done to help? It has been suggested that narrator may work
> better on maple, what do you think.
> Thank you
> Best wishes
> Richard
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