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

[Nicholas J]

Hello,

Thank you for the response about the Sensational Blackboard and convention.
Is math homework done with similar technology? If textbooks are to be
translated to braille, I was told before that the braille book could take
up multiple shelves of a bookshelf since it would be so big. Is that still
true at the present?

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
>