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

[John Gardner]

Hi, I am unaware of any braille displays with more than one line. Do you have references? One word of caution. Having multiple lines is useful only if the software displays information the way it needs to be displayed semantically. This is not at all automatic, so even if you spent a lot of money to purchase a multiple-line display, it could be not very useful if the lines are not properly aligned. I don't even know how to ask the right questions to find out.

John

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Subject: Re: [BlindMath] Transitioning from Completely Visual Math to Less Visual Math

Thank you to everyone for all the help. I was looking at different braille displays and saw some that are one, two, three, or four lines. How many lines would be the best for statistics? I was told before that one line may not be enough for proofs or long problems that would need different parts to be seen at once. I wasn't sure if even two, three, or four is enough, but it seems like there is the choice for only one through four lines. How good will I need to be in braille before I can use it for statistics?

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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