Fine. Not all of us had the luxury of being born with this condition. I
find the tone of this remark insulting. But, anyway, I got through my
Extra exam, so I guess I really don't particularly care whether any of this
stuff is made more readily accessible or not. Perhaps it is best left as
it is.
--Lou K2LKK
At 06:46 PM 1/16/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>Lou, sighted folks are expected to be able to read math so the same should be
>true of blind people. Having doctoral level math under my belt I can tell you
>that the braille for doing so well exists especially for the basic types
>of math
>on the extra exam. I found the only thing necessary for the math was to have
>the formulas correctly read. This does not mean in words, it means to
>read the
>mathematicws as written by someone who knows the signs or via a scanning
>program
>up to the task of translation of scanning mathematics.
>
>Tom
>
>
>Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
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