[BlindMath] Drawing trigonometric Functions and their Graphs

[Jason Merrill]

I can provide a little bit more information about Desmos.

The graphing calculator at https://www.desmos.com/calculator is designed to
work well with a screen reader (and so are the four function and scientific
calculators at https://www.desmos.com/fourfunction and
https://www.desmos.com/scientific).

The graphing calculator can also produce audio representations of graphs.
There's a short intro video about how that works at the top of our
accessibility documentation: https://www.desmos.com/accessibility

For turning in work, there are a couple of good options.

1. Share a link: every time you save a graph, we produce a unique url for
the saved work, so you could save a graph and then send someone a link to
the url that shows up in the url bar. That would allow them to see your
work online.
2. Use your browser's File > Print function to produce a visual printout
3. Export an image from the share menu (CTRL + ALT + S
on Windows, CTRL + COMMAND + S on mac).

If you have access to a tactile graphics embosser, you could print the
exported image on that printer. I've been experimenting with printing to a
VP Max embosser this week, and I've found that printing an image exported
as "Size": "Medium Square", "Line Thickness": "Thin" works passably well.

We're interested in improving our ability to produce tactile graphics,
though. I think the biggest improvement will be allowing printing axis
numbers (and other lables) as Braille. There's also room to improve the dot
heights and line thicknesses for better legibility.

I would love to chat more with any teachers or students who are interested
in producing tactile cartesian graphs. Feel free to e-mail me directly (
jason at desmos.com) if you have ideas about this, or if you'd be interested
in testing improved Desmos tactile graphics.

Best,

Jason

Jason Merrill
Lead Calculator Engineer
Desmos, Inc.

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 6:50 AM Wershing, Alice D. via BlindMath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Desmos is an open source graphing online program, that has built in
> accessibility for graphing.  I have not used it with any students, so I
> will be interested in learning how it actually works.   When I searched
> about printing, it seems that printing is best in chrome.   There is
> information on using braille input devices and screen reading software, but
> I don't know if printing will produce anything tactile.  I can't seem to
> embed a link right now in my email, here is the printed link to their
> accessibility page- https://www.desmos.com/accessibility
>
> Looking forward to learning more about how this may work.  I don't have
> any students who are blind, and have been researching math accessibility
> for several years, so please post your findings!
>
> Alice D. Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P., C.P.A.A.C.
> Disability Services, Technology Specialist Pellissippi State Community
> College
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> 865-539-7699 <(865)%20539-7699> (fax)
>
> East TN Region Accessibility Specialist
> Tenessee Board of Regents-TN eCampus
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> PSCC Access for All Blog
> PSCC Accessible Format Facebook Page (PSCC-Disability Services)
> PSCC Access4All Twitter Feed (@Access4allPSCC)
>
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindMath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Elise
> Berkley via BlindMath
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 7:59 PM
> To: blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Elise Berkley <bravaegf711 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [BlindMath] Drawing trigonometric Functions and their Graphs
>
> I do have braille graph paper, but is there a better way? Is there a
> program to input data and print a graph? Thanks for being my lifesavers!
> Elise--
> Elise Berkley and Becky Berkley
> Okay, everyone. Elise again!
> Another question: What is the simplest way for us to draw graphs of
> trigonometric functions?
>
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