[BlindMath] Literature on advanced probability and statistics

Halena Rojas Valduciel halenarojas at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 22:39:58 UTC 2018


Hi Lucasz.
First of all, thanks for the resources you recommend.
Regarding the reading of university texts, our student has used a
combination of Latex, Braille and speech synthesis.
Nemeth is not managed in Venezuela, as far as I am aware of at any
educational level; in fact, the majority of blind students are
directed towards the humanities area.
Those few who obtain the baccalaureate in sciences, use the unified
mathematical code, or some alternative with synthesis of voice
It is the first time that a blind student attends this degree and goes
so far, so they do not have many previous experiences, nor with
accessible university texts in the area of ​​advanced mathematics.
Depending on the teacher, the  files are usually provided. tex with
which the practices and other files are generated in PDF format.
The problem is that in this subject, the teacher sends his students to
consult the bibliography, and until now we have not obtained it
digitalized.
Anyway, thanks for answering.
Have a nice day.
Greetings, Halena.

2018-04-18 17:05 GMT-04:00, Łukasz Grabowski via BlindMath
<blindmath at nfbnet.org>:
> If it's advanced then presumably the student took already some maths
> courses, if so how did he/she access university maths textbooks? Audio,
> nemeth, reading latex code?
>
> You can have a look here for probability (2nd year course):
> http://maths.lancs.ac.uk/grabows1/web/accessible/math230/math230_notes.tex/index.html
> and here for stats (2nd year course):
> http://maths.lancs.ac.uk/grabows1/web/accessible/math235/Math235-2016Lec_new.tex/index.html
>
> For 2nd year courses these are relatively easy. You need NVDA with
> mathplayer to access the maths - it should produce either an audio
> output or nemeth. Having said that these were prepared for non-blind
> vis impaired student, and noone's ever checked if audio/nemeth is of
> good quality.
>
> If it is latex which you're looking for then likely eihther lecturer
> prepare their own notes or he should do his job and look for suitable
> lecture notes on the internet with latex source publically available
> (it's really the lecturer who should do it)
>
> Best,
> Lukasz
>
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 16:42:16 -0400
> Halena Rojas Valduciel via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi, everyone.
>> I am Halena Rojas, accessibility consultant and teaching assistant of
>> the computer school of the Faculty of Sciences of the Central
>> University of Venezuela.
>> We have a blind student, taking Probability and Statistics in the
>> bachelor's degree in computer science.
>> I would like to know if there is a literature on advanced probability
>> and statistics in an accessible digital format.
>> Since I am also blind, I can not adapt the materials that we have in
>> physics without the intervention of someone who can correct the
>> mathematical expressions that do not fit well after the
>> digitalization.
>> Thank you very much to anyone who can give me information about it.
>> Regards, Halena.
>>
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