[BlindMath] Transitioning from Completely Visual Math to Less Visual Math

[Sean Tikkun]

I have been actively lobbying braille display companies for a 2-3 line display. At this time there isn’t anything on the market. 

-Sean
> On Mar 30, 2017, at 6:01 PM, Nicholas J via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Thank you for the email about the textbooks Łukasz. Many of the braille
> displays I have seen only show one line of a book or text. Are there any
> that show multiple lines? If the textbook is a pdf, will the screen reader
> be able to read the math notation? If the math notation is not in mathml,
> is it easy to make it in mathml?
> 
> Thank you,
> Nicholas
> 
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:21 PM, Nicholas J <314nick15 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I’m considering doing a Master’s in statistics, but I do not want to go
>> back to the technology that I used before. I used a cctv to view the board
>> and zoomtext as a screen magnifier. All the cctvs I have used have still
>> left me not able to see what was happening in most of my classes before and
>> zoomtext made things slower for me because of so much magnification. Right
>> now I am transitioning to using Jaws for the computer, but I am not sure
>> what to do for things like the boards in classes, writing, and things like
>> that. I don’t write notes because I am slow at it since I have to write big
>> and I usually still can’t understand what I wrote because of how quickly I
>> wrote it and how unreadable it is. I have been looking at doing things in
>> braille, but am not sure if that is the best way to go. I thought it might
>> take a lot of time also to learn it. I still think it may be helpful in
>> some situations (maybe graphics which I could almost never discern
>> correctly the more complicated they got). I have been reading through all
>> the posts here about latex and having Jaws read them and other kinds of
>> technologies, but I am not sure what kinds of technology are best for the
>> transition of doing everything visually to doing things less visually. My
>> vision has always stayed the same, but the field I am working in is
>> statistics and it gets very small and specific for notation and everything.
>> Main Question: What technology and how can I do math more electronically
>> and less visually? I am learning Jaws, braille, and Kurzweil.
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Nicholas
>> 
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