[nabs-l] accessible books

[Chris Nusbaum]

Anna,

I agree with Karl.  As someone who is taking chemistry at present, I can
tell you that many of the symbols do not read correctly with a Braille
display or notetaker. Though I'm very good at using the display and use it
for all other classes, I'm still often required to have my chemistry work
transcribed in hardcopy. I would definitely explore getting your textbook
transcribed. It will likely be huge (my high school Chem 1 textbook is over
30 volumes,) but it is worth the space required for it.

Chris

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From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Karl Martin
Adam via nabs-l
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 9:08 PM
To: Zachary N. Griego-Dreicer; National Association of Blind Students
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accessible books

The problem with word documents is they often don't keep the original page
numbers from the book, so if you have to cite it, you can't.  PDF is better,
but OCR software often messes up with those.  I think chemistry will be
particularly problematic because of the subscripts and superscripts, so it
might be worth your while getting that book professionally transcribed or at
least making sure your DSS office has someone go through the book and proof
read it.  You'll also need to get someone to write out descriptions of the
diagrams and maybe the pictures in your anthro book especially if you're
talking about physical anthropology where you have to know about things like
skeletal structure in different homonins.

Hope this helps,
Karl

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Zachary N. Griego-Dreicer via nabs-l" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: Anna Givens <annajee82 at gmail.com>,National Association of Blind Students
mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org Date sent: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 18:36:47 -0700
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accessible books

Hi, I've been having them do Microsoft Word for me. Or PDF usually works.

Sent from my iPhone 6 Using VoiceOver

 On Dec 8, 2014, at 18:28, Anna Givens via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

 I am wondering what format my college books need to be in in order for  me
to be able to use JAWS to read them and also use my Braille sense  to read
them.  I am going to take Spanish and Chemistry and  anthropology in the
spring and want to have access in audio and  braille.  But I don't know if
there is a specific way the books have  to be scanned or put into a certain
format for me to access them on  the comp and the braille sense.
 Thanks for your help.

 Anna

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