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

[Louis Maher]

Hello Nicholas,

Braille, especially the Nemeth code, will be your way to proceed in mathematics, especially for class notes.  You will want to get a Braille display eventually.

As to drawings, there is a $50 item, called the Sensational Blackboard 
(303-238-4760 "Sensational Books
P.O. Box 261085
Lakewood, CO 80226",
http://sensationalbooks.com/) 
which will allow a person to sketch a graph, on a plain piece of copy paper, that can be seen and felt.

If you are wondering how to do mathematics, the NFB is planning a full day seminar on how the blind can do math.  The seminar will be on July 10, at the summer NFB convention.  The formal announcement is awaiting the final room confirmation.




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

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

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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