[BlindMath] Preparing an Online Calculus Class

[Fahlberg, Tim R. (TCH)]

Hi Alysia,

I don't have a simple answer to your question but I do know that putting text and MathML  in an iBook makes it so that the book can be read aloud with VoiceOver and accessed using a refreshable braille device. What's needed now is an effort to convert math books to MathML & iBook form. Math iBooks could then be heard on an iPhone using VoiceOver while being displayed on a refreshable braille device for the Nemeth. And instead of a single line refreshable braille unit that's $2,000 - $5000 hopefully soon this year it'll be possible to display the ebook on a multiline braille ebook reader - the upcoming Canute from Bristol Braille (about $1,100 for a 9 x 40 = 360 character display - see http://bristolbraille.co.uk/canute.htm ).

Tim Fahlberg
Math Teacher
WSBVI - Wisconsin School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
1700 W. State St.
Janesville, WI 53546
1-608-758-6100 x 5360

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Subject: [BlindMath] Preparing an Online Calculus Class

Hello Everyone,
I've got a teacher trying to prepare their online Calculus class for Visually Impaired or blind students.
I reviewed one of her many assignments for accessibility but had no luck. Here is what I tried with both Word Math Editor and Math Type.

*         Windows Narrator

*         Microsoft Speak

*         Zoomtext

*         JAWS

*         Read and Write (just as an experiment)
None of the readers read the equations from the Words Math Editor correctly. JAWS and Narrator read the alternative text I entered with images produced by Math Type when starting a new line, but they would not read when I selected the specific images. Does anyone have any ideas about how to get the software to read appropriately?
The students would be facing a complex combination of numbers letters and symbols that need to read: "F prime of ex equals one third ex to the negative two thirds equals one over three times the third root of ex squared."

Thanks,
Alysia Leak, MA, LMFTA
Assistive Technology Specialists, Disability Services Central Campus, Terrell 201 PO Box 35009 Charlotte, NC  28235
704.330.2722 ext 3462
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