[BlindRUG] BlindRUG Digest, Vol 53, Issue 1

[Ward, Elizabeth - wardex]

I am a sighted professor of statistics who teaches introductory statistics (I'm on this mailing list because I had a blind student and became interested in accessibility for R). I usually teach a few examples using the table, just because it seems like students are expected to know it. Then, I switch to having them use an online app, calculator or R.  I often suggest the app in the following link, but I'm not sure how accessible it is. Maybe someone could use their screen reader to look and let me know?
https://www.webassign.net/csalt/#/toolset/distributions

Best Wishes,
Ben

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Hello Jonathan,

Thank you for your response. As a blind person in a society that often has low expectations, it's hard to know whether using a calculator or R is an excuse to not learn the skill of reading the Z table. Like some blind people have people take class notes for them because they can't read and write independently. I suppose you're saying this is a case where blindness actually does make it harder?

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