[Blindmath] communities of practice around math accessibility

[Sabra Ewing]

I am interested too. I haven't found an accessible text yet.

Sabra Ewing

> On Feb 11, 2016, at 1:54 PM, Tara Robertson via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I've been lurking on this list for a little while. 
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> I'm a librarian who manages a centralized alternate format service for 20
> colleges and universities. Last summer we did some training on producing
> MathML. Throughout this year we've had some questions from several of the
> colleges we serve about accommodations for blind students that are beyond
> having a textbook that is accessible. It's clear to me that each of these
> institutions is doing the best that they can without a lot of information. 
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> From my perspective various groups have some of the relevant information
> including us, an organization that provides assistive technology (both
> hardware and software), disability service offices and math instructors. I'm
> hoping to find interested people in our province to start figuring out what
> the questions are to support access to math (and stats and comp sci). 
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> Are there existing communities of practice in this area? 
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> Thanks!
> 
> Tara
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> Tara Robertson
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> Accessibility Librarian
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> <http://www.caperbc.ca/> CAPER-BC
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> 604.323.5254
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> <mailto:trobertson at langara.ca> trobertson at langara.ca
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