[NFB-Science] Seeking Assistance for Statistics Class

[Kendra Schaber]

Hi all! 
 Voice Dream is a good reading app. But if you need to see the individual letters and numbers, you'll want to try out NVDA. I also heard it was better with math than JAWS. If you have a computer with NVDA or NVDA with JAWS on it, then your good to go. If you only have JAWS, then, get NVDA which is free. You can't just use only JAWS any more. 


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> On Jan 8, 2019, at 10:09, Elizabeth Mohnke via NFB-Science <nfb-science at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I hope this message finds you doing well and enjoying the New Year. I am currently enrolled in a statistics class. The good news is that my class does not require the use of SPSS. However, my professor is a bit old fashioned, and likes to use a lot of handouts for our course materials.
> 
> My professor provides all of the handouts electronically in addition to the print hard copies we receive in class. I also have a dedicated disabilities office who is willing to make sure all of the math equations and formulas in these electronic materials are accessible to me by using the Math Type program to make the math content accessible to me.
> 
> However, I have never been able to figure out how to successfully read math content element by element electronically using JAWS. My introductory math classes were totally inaccessible, so I primarily used readers and my limited use of Braille. However, if my disabilities office is able to create accessible Math ML content for me, then I would like to be able to figure out a way to read it.
> 
> The textbook we are using for my statistics class is The Basic Practice of Statistics (7th edition) by Moore, Notz, and Fligner if this information is helpful for anyone. Also, my disabilities office was able to get an epub version of this textbook from the publisher. However, I do not have any experience using this electronic format as I typically get my books from either NLS or Bookshare.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience reading books published in the epub format? If so, what will I need to do in order to read this textbook? And since I have found my textbook on Bookshare, how is the epub format different than what I can get through Bookshare?
> 
> Any information you could provide in regards to these questions as well as any other tips or advice for making it through a statistics class would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Elizabeth
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