[Blindmath] communities of practice around math accessibility

[John G Heim]

what would you folks think about using the web site of the International 
Association of Visually Impaired Technologists? We already have a wiki 
and a wordpress blog site set up. Nobody is using it as yet though.  We 
have the infrastructure but no content. You have the content but no 
infrastructure. Seems like a perfect match. I think we can probably 
provide you with whatever services you need.

On 02/11/2016 10:10 PM, Sabra Ewing via Blindmath wrote:
> I am interested too. I haven't found an accessible text yet.
>
> Sabra Ewing
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>> 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!
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>> 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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