[Nfb-science] Fwd: [nabs-l] College issue, please help!

[Danielle Burton]

Hi, I'm going to honest with you that I prefer not to do math using
audio at all. As far as graphs I don't know of any programs that are
very accessible with graphs. I prefer using tactile graphs and braille
for math along with a reader and scribe.

On 9/2/15, Mariya Vasileva via Nfb-science <nfb-science at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> From: Kayla James via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Date: September 2, 2015 at 13:34:03 CDT
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: Kayla James <christgirl813 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] College issue, please help!
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>> I am taking an Accounting course at my community college in Illinois.
>> I am having a similar issure but with a different program altogether.
>> Have you gone to technical support? If you have and it still doesn't
>> work out, maybe you and your professor can sit down and discuss
>> different alternatives to do your work until you can find another
>> program that can help.
>>
>>> On 9/2/15, Mariya Vasileva via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>>> Sent from my iPad
>>> Hi, I started college at Normandale Community College in Bloomington,
>>> Minnesota last week. I am taking a pre-college course in math in order
>>> to
>>> refresh my my high level math skills. This course uses a new website
>>> that
>>> may sound familiar to you, Aleks spelled ALEKS, not Alex like the name.
>>> It
>>> is accessible as far as navigation, but with there new interface, doing
>>> the
>>> problems is cumbersome because while the buttons are labeled, the access
>>> to
>>> there content is impossible with NVDA, VoiceOver, or JAWS. Meaning, when
>>> it
>>> comes to actually activating the button and putting in a fraction or
>>> some
>>> thing of that natre, for example, is cumbersome. I and the Normandale
>>> staff
>>> have told these people these issues, and they did put me on the older
>>> interface that was supposedly more accessible, which, it is as far as
>>> equations, but when it comes to intering fractions or sqare roots, for
>>> example, using the buttons for them, or entering the answers in to the
>>> box
>>> indicated, is impossible, still. Not to mention, when it comes to graphs
>>> or
>>> number lines, I have to have some one work with me on those particular
>>> problems because those areas are definitely accessible. Do you guys have
>>> any
>>> other alternatives to doing math with a website like the one mentioned
>>> above
>>> that is a lot more accessible than this one, that you have used to do
>>> math
>>> in college successfully? That would be greatly appreciated.
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Danielle Burton
Secretary, National Federation of the Blind, Deaf Blind Division
Email: danielleburton94 at gmail.com