[BlindMath] Getting a Text Book

[Martin, Vincent F]

Zack,

Are you currently in the class?  I know getting it in Braille or MathML will take time.  I also doubt it is in an "accessible" electronic format as well.  

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Subject: [BlindMath] Getting a Text Book

Hello all, 

 

I wrote before about this course, but wanted to ask about peoples'
experiences requesting accessible versions of text books from publishers and authors. As Dr. Godfrey pointed out, my text book is over ten years old, but my prof fervently believes this is the end-all text for applied linear regression. Unfortunately I've found my learning style depends on reading a text book more than listening to lectures, and my prof assigns almost all homework's as problems from the book-not the hard part, I just get people to read them to me, but understanding the material when you've fallen way behind and have a thousand commitments is. So after that rant. could someone share with me a sample letter they may have sent to an author and/or publisher that elicited a positive response, that is to say the author(s)/publisher sent them an accessible and/or workable format of the text? My disabilities office contacted the publisher at the beginning of the semester to which the response was "We don't have an electronic copy of this book." Is that possible considering the book was published in 2004? My DSS then shredded my hard copy and made a readable PDF, but as we all know math doesn't translate, which is kind of important in regression. 

 

Thank you Dr. Godfrey again for the tutorial resources. I'm getting to them ASAP. If I'm ever in NZ or you in US perhaps we should try meeting up. 

 

 

Thanks all,

 

Zac

 

Zachary Mason

M.S. Student

Animal and Dairy Sciences

Mississippi State University

 

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