[BlindMath] Getting a Text Book

[Łukasz Grabowski]

I really hope it  will work for you. I've had a look at this book. A
good quality OCR is available on the internet, alas without maths
formulas. But still this does mean that preparing an accessible version
of this book would take "only" less than 100 hours of work (not
counting the plots), even without the source files...

It'd be the worst kind of work - retyping the maths formulas, knowing
that it could be made completely obsolete, because the original is
"somewhere there" already, but perhaps the students which would be doing
it wouldn't be told :-). But not many institutions are committed enough
to accessibility to fund this kind of effort; also contacting the
authors is the best thing to do in the first instance anyway. In any
case good luck.

Best,
Łukasz

On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:31:24 -0600
"Zach" <zm290 at msstate.edu> wrote:

> Thanks Lukasz, 
> 
> I'm using your template to make a letter my prof only has to sign and
> send. 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Zac
> 
> Zachary Mason
> M.S. Student
> Animal and Dairy Sciences
> Mississippi State University
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindMath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Lukasz Grabowski via BlindMath Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 10:44 AM
> To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
> 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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