[BlindMath] Getting Precalc Notes

Tue Jul 16 02:29:09 UTC 2019

You might take a look at infty reader, http://www.inftyreader.org/
However, if you can have a friend write the notes for you, or even convince
the notetaker to take notes in digital format that's going to help. Trying
to OCR math ends up causing problems, because suddenly i in your sumations
become l or 1, and bad things like that. There are often cases in fields
like stats where the difference between x and X means everything, and a
failed recognition will literally make understanding the math impossible.
As you get into higher level math this becomes even a bigger problem. If
mathtype is still around, your notetaker can use mathtype. If worst comes
to worst, your notetaker can just use the modern equation editor in word or
google docs, and we can figure out how to help you read those. Both
programs can present them, to screen readers, annd I had to use them both
for certain tasks in school, because I had classes where mathtype wasn't
something the student wanted to use. It's not easy or pleasant to use the
built in word math editor, because you either need to use narrator or NVDA
with experimental UIA support. Using docs isn't much better because the
equations reading doesn't support braille.

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:08 AM Anna Givens via BlindMath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Elise,
> 1. What town, state and school was this?
>
> 2. Do they have an ADA Coordinator?
> (This is not staff in the Disability Resource office, it would be a
> different person.)
>
> Thanks for reaching out and sharing this here. Please get back with these
> answers and hopfully others can share experience in terms of something that
> can read hand written math notes. I don’t know what there is, if anything.
> But human readers are also an option.
>
> Sorry this happened to you. It’s too common.
>
> Anna
>
> > On Jul 15, 2019, at 12:47 PM, Elise Berkley via BlindMath <
> blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello, everyone.
> > About a year ago, I was taking precalculus. I had a notetaker that
> > used the carbon copy paper (which was fine.) The problem was that my
> > DSPS department had no one to retype them for me. My previous J.C.
> > retyped them for me, but tthis school is smaller. And, they would not
> > help me to get them retyped. They just handed me the notes on carbon
> > copy paper and sent me on my way.
> > So, I stopped going to school. Is there any suggestions for me getting
> > these notes? Are there any math programs that scan hand-written math
> > notes for my computer? OpenBook does not scan numbers very well.
> > Thanks for the help. I really want to go back to schooland work on my
> > associates degree. Have a good day.
> > Elise Berkley
> > P.S. I also talked to them about the ADA rules for us.
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