[NABS-L] Alex: An online math program

[Bella Teta]

Hello,
That is a good question, and I have had to use Alex for my math courses
before. The drag and drop features on Alex are not very accessible, and I
did not find a way to do it with a keyboard shortcut. I ended up using
Aira, Be my eyes, or a human reader/scribe for the drag and drop questions.
Also, I appreciate you saying that you contacted your professor and Math
departments about this issue, and that is something I also did which makes
them aware of the accessibility challenges presented within Alex.
Hopefully, there are other people with better experiences using Alex that
could give you additional advice. Good luck.



Sincerely,


Bella Teta

On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM Sidney Horn via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a question for you all. Have any of you ever used Alex in any of
> your math courses in college? What would you do when it was asking you to
> drag the mouse and draw a graph for a distribution table?
> I was working on Alex the other day, thankfully I'm out of the unit we were
> in before because it would always ask me questions like that. It had a
> review question though from a previous unit we did, and it asked me that.
> My professor here at my college has been very understanding. Access and the
> whole math department knows about the Alex program not always being
> compatible with the screen readers.
> There are a few other students on my campus who have used it before as well
> who are also visually impaired. I'm one of the few students that uses Jaws.
> The others use a mack.
> I will say, my experience with Alex has been decent, just the distribution
> tables haven't always been my friend. When it's not asking me to drag the
> mouse and draw the table, it works! Haha!
> Thanks, and just looking for other students who may have used this before.
>
>
> Sidney
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