Hi, Well, I never thought that going back to the school was going to be so hard. Especially when all this hard times are due to the accessibilities barrios that I am finding on different web pages and digital documentation related with placement tests and all of this.
I have taken a very hard time talking to my university, talking to the disability department. They say that according with college board, those documents are accessible with jaws 10. I told them that it is not true, and also it is ridiculous when jaws 10 is not supported more by freedom scientific. Well, they suggest me to contact college board, and here is the worse part of my story. College board asked me to try to use the accu placement test web app. On this web app the formulas are great, they are done using MathML language, and jaws reads it very nice. Even though the answers or choices that I have to respond each problem is no accessible. I called back College board, and someone in customer services told me that it how it is, that I should try to talk to my university to see what they can do. Sometimes I feel like some organizations that provide services are in the medieval times. Why everything should be so difficult for blind people? The accessibility is today how we were in the 1960’s with the race discrimination and how we were in 1920 with the women rights. I really don’t know what to do. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 1:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: MathML and PDF files Dear Pablo and others on the discussion about this specific topic. My personal experience on reading math/scientific formula/equations/expressions has been very bad in any format, may it be word, pdf or any other. It is true that tables are read correctly, but while reading formulae, etc, it makes no sense. So far as symbols are concerned, Jaws16 and 17 have come up with improvements, and now symbols are correctly pronounced by Jaws, no matter whether those symbols are written independently or used in combination in any equation. But the real problem arises when equations are written using equation editor or any other programme (even math ML), they are not read correctly. Very often, research papers and standard books on mathematics/statistics/econometrics use standard programmes for writing equations/expressions/formulae which are difficult to read using Jaws. Thanks and regards! Vikas Dixit On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 02:41:39 +0530 "Pablo Morales" wrote > Hi all,My college is giving me a hard time, I am trying to read some PDF > files, where appears bunches of math formulas, and what jaws is reading > doesn’t make any sense. I mean, jaws is reading the information in parts and > the formulas that jaws reads doesn’t make sense, so I am not able to > understand anything in each question. Now the college is saying that those > PDF files are fully accessible with jaws, but they are talking about jaws 10, > I really think that they don’t know what they are talking about. Anyway, I > would like to know if jaws is able to read MathML on web pages, on IE or > FireFox, if I open a PDF file, it should make the document more accessible?Or > what I am saying doesn’t make any sense like the math formulas in this PDF > file? Dr. Vikas Dixit Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700032. Tel. +913324572160 (Department), hand phone: +919748657055 (Kolkata), +919412370464 (U.P.) <https://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline.htm@Middle?> Get your own FREE website, FREE domain & FREE mobile app with Company email. <http://track.rediff.com/click?url=___http://businessemail.rediff.com?sc_cid=sign-1-10-13___&cmp=host&lnk=sign-1-10-13&nsrv1=host> Know More >
