[BlindMath] Getting a Text Book

Fri Mar 10 17:55:43 UTC 2017

Hello Maureen,

As far as I know, Bookshare can't handle mathematics.  

Also, I believe that publishers only publish math equations as images; therefore, the books they produce are inaccessible if they have equations.

Regards
Louis Maher
Phone: 713-444-7838
E-mail: ljmaher at swbell.net

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From: BlindMath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lewicki, Maureen via BlindMath
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 11:23 AM
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Cc: Lewicki, Maureen <MLewicki at bcsd.neric.org>
Subject: Re: [BlindMath] Getting a Text Book

Have you looked at Bookshare to see it is available? If not they will scan it and get it ready in digitial format.

Publishers can also be contacted for access to the NIMAC files, which is the digital format of the book that must be made available to print impaired students

Maureen Murphy Lewicki
Teacher of the Visually Impaired
Bethlehem Central School District
Bethlehem High School
700 Delaware Ave
Delmar, NY 12054
http://www.bethlehemschools.org
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From: BlindMath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lukasz Grabowski via BlindMath
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 11:44 AM
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Cc: Łukasz Grabowski <graboluk at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BlindMath] Getting a Text Book

Hi Zach, so what's the textbook?

I think you have a much better chance if you contact the authors - it would be hard for me even to image an author of a maths book which would refuse giving you the sources for your pirvate use. I used something like this.

Dear ...,

I am a mathematics lecturer at the Lancaster University, and I currently prepare teaching materials for a visually impaired student.
It would be of enormous help if I could get access to the TeX files (or other source files) of your book ... .
Do you think you could provide me with such TeX files or source files?

I would use the source files exclusively for providing versions of the book, which is the main reference for some of our courses, to our visually impaired students.

With best wishes,
...

Best,
Łukasz

On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 09:01:14 -0600
Zach via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
>
>
> I wrote before about this course, but wanted to ask about peoples'
> experiences requesting accessible versions of text books from 
> publishers and authors. As Dr. Godfrey pointed out, my text book is 
> over ten years old, but my prof fervently believes this is the end-all 
> text for applied linear regression. Unfortunately I've found my 
> learning style depends on reading a text book more than listening to 
> lectures, and my prof assigns almost all homework's as problems from 
> the book-not the hard part, I just get people to read them to me, but 
> understanding the material when you've fallen way behind and have a 
> thousand commitments is. So after that rant. could someone share with 
> me a sample letter they may have sent to an author and/or publisher 
> that elicited a positive response, that is to say the 
> author(s)/publisher sent them an accessible and/or workable format of 
> the text? My disabilities office contacted the publisher at the 
> beginning of the semester to which the response was "We don't have an 
> electronic copy of this book." Is that possible considering the book 
> was published in 2004? My DSS then shredded my hard copy and made a 
> readable PDF, but as we all know math doesn't translate, which is kind 
> of important in regression.
>
>
>
> Thank you Dr. Godfrey again for the tutorial resources. I'm getting to 
> them ASAP. If I'm ever in NZ or you in US perhaps we should try 
> meeting up.
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks all,
>
>
>
> Zac
>
>
>
> Zachary Mason
>
> M.S. Student
>
> Animal and Dairy Sciences
>
> Mississippi State University
>
>
>
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