[BlindMath] Online assignments

[Sabra Ewing]

Lauren, you are incorrect about this. A lot of these online platforms are not accessible at all. They use/camera and even if parts of them are accessible, you cannot read the equations. I have had lots of experience with these things in college. I was never able to get access to these things. This is the schools problem using and it's a support system, and legislation is coming out to address that, but that did not help me get through the course. I just had to take the classes and parallel with my peers, using a textbook that was not part of the online system, and having the professor assigned me problems from that book as well as locating other practice problems for me to do. It was not equal access at all. I did not get the immediate feedback, I did not have a system that reported my problem areas and gave me customized review problems, or any of that, but it was the only thing we could think of.

Sabra Ewing

> On Jul 28, 2018, at 11:14 AM, Joseph Polizzotto via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Besides reaching out to the company about a11y and working with their
> developers, I would focus the school’s eefforts on adopting an accessible
> platform from the beginning, such as WebWork and MyOpenMath:
> 
> http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Introduction
> 
> 
> https://www.myopenmath.com
> 
> FWIW, Pearson’s MyMathLab has been making improvements as more titles are
> being upgraded. Not sure about K-12 content though.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Joseph
> 
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 12:15 PM J Acheson via BlindMath <
> blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
>> Greetings!
>> Yes, more questions. I appreciate your patience. What are others doing
>> when students have online math assignments through such platforms as Math
>> Nation and Math XL? These would be at the high school level and include
>> Algebra and Geometry. Teachers use web based resources for homework and
>> practice problems. In some instance, the web source will have
>> practice/review problems available when students responded incorrectly to
>> an assigned item. These support problems are not predictable and therefore
>> all the material within the program cannot be brailled  in advance.
>> 
>> Thank you for your information, insight, and help.
>> Janet
>> 
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