Richard Jones posted a question about Maple accessibility on these two
lists earlier today.  I asked Oregon State physics major Aqil Sajjad about
his experience with Maple - which I had thought he'd used successfully.  He
has and I forward his comments.  Incidentally although he apparently hasn't
tried it, Maple does print quite well on Tiger.

John

>From: "Aqil Sajjad" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "John Gardner" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: [adtech-ps] Calculus and the Blind
>Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:25:54 -0800
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>Yes, in fact I have fallen in love with it use it as a calculator all the
>time. Its pretty cool.
>
>I am not sure what problem they are having in making it accessible. The
>graphs and animations etc are not accessible but the rest is just text. On
>graphs, you can however get a data file and open it in the accessible
>graphing calculator or excel. I am also thinking about trying to print
>something on the tiger. Don't know whether that would work.
>
>One possible problem could be the display settings. Maple has more than one
>output modes. For example, the square root of x can be displayed either as
>x^(1/2) or with x under a square root sign. Obviously, the former is
>readable using jaws and the latter is not. In fact, there may be even more
>output modes.
>
>So I would suggest looking at the the display settings. If that doesn't
>work, then I am afraid, I can't say anything.
>
>But the bottom line is that it can be used with jaws. And any student or
>scientist who doesn't have a tool like this is at a great disadvantage.
>
>Aqil
>
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> > Aqil, didn't you use Maple in David McIntyre's course?
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > >Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 15:21:01 -0700
> > >From: Richard Jones <[log in to unmask]>
> > >Subject: [adtech-ps] Calculus and the Blind
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> > >Our Math department uses Maple as a part of their Calculus courses Mat
>270
> > >to Mat 274.  We have not found a way to make Maple or Scientific Notebook
> > >Accessible to the Blind.  Do you have any suggestions?  For majors where
> > >calculus is not part of the core curriculum, are there any suggestions
>for
> > >substitutions?  Statistics with SPSS?
> > >
> > >Richard Jones
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John Gardner
Professor and Director, Science Access Project
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-6507
tel: (541) 737 3278
FAX: (541) 737 1683
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URL: http://dots.physics.orst.edu