[BlindMath] Getting Precalc Notes

Tue Jul 16 16:11:06 UTC 2019

Zack, I'd also be interested in your group. 

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From: BlindMath <blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Zachary Mason via BlindMath
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 9:24 AM
To: Derek.Riemer at colorado.edu; Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Zachary Mason <zm290 at msstate.edu>
Subject: Re: [BlindMath] Getting Precalc Notes

Hi

I am starting a digital transcription group. I would like to talk more. 603-991-6747

Zac

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> On Jul 15, 2019, at 10:29 PM, Derek Scott Riemer via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> You might take a look at infty reader, 
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> 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 < 
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>
>> 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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