[BlindMath] Inaccessible math books

[Sanchit Ghule]

Ha Ha. Well said Michael.
Asking book publisher for accessible material is like sweating for small
stuff. And finally turned out that I have to have learn math ML. I wish I
would have enough intelligence rather than depending on artificial one. May
god shower GPL for me.
Sanchit.

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, 8:24 PM Michael Evers via BlindMath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Bookshare does not currently offer
> math textbooks in the MathML Format.  Trying to find a vender with the
> expertise to perform transcription services for converting math textbooks
> into MathML is like pulling teeth.  The only solution is for you to try to
> learn MathML and perform the conversions yourself.
>         There are software programs that can do a lot of the work for you,
> but you
> will still have to go through all of the mathematical expressions to make
> sure that all of the transcriptions were performed correctly.  That task in
> and of itself can take several months depending on how much time and human
> resources you have at your disposal.  Most likely, converting these
> textbooks into MathML is nothing more than a pipe dream until this pandemic
> is over and venders make themselves available again.
>         Good luck getting the textbook publishers to convert their
> materials into
> MathML for you.  That task is even more impossible to accomplish, because
> they don't care.  I know that I have tried getting textbooks converted into
> MathML for one of my engineering students and have not been able to find
> any
> venders willing or able to help my university at all.  Every vender that I
> have reached out to, including UC Boulder and Georgia Tech Center for
> Instructional Design have all said they do not have the human resources to
> convert textbook materials into MathML, because of the COVID-19 pandemic,
> but if they have materials in their repositories, they would gladly let me
> have access to them.  The problem is, my student's professors are requiring
> textbooks that are currently not in these vender's repositories.  So, we're
> back to square one.  Good luck trying to find these resources.  Let us know
> how it works out.
>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Akashdeep Bansal <akashdeep.bansal4 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 1, 2021 1:20 AM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [BlindMath] Inaccessible math books
>
> You can check on Bookshare.
>
> I-Stem (http://www.istemai.com/) provides service for conversion of
> documents into accessible formats. We also fixes the bugs through manual
> corrections and can provide output in mml. Pls let me know if you are
> interested.
>
> On 3/1/21, Kellee Sanchez via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> > Hello! We have a student in higher level math class, aerodynamics to
> > be exact, and the online book is not accessible. There are many people
> > working on a viable avenues to get the student their book before the
> > semester ends, but it is looking bleak. Does anyone have suggestions
> > how to get the book into MML? Also, what can I do when this occurs
> > again? Who can I contact? The book is Fundamentals of Aerodynamics 6th
> > ed. By JD Anderson. Thank you for any assistance you can give!
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