I am looking for help in dealing with text that contains mathematical symbols, which has to be recognized by a text-to-voice conversion system. We are using Jaws, in this case. This is for the benefit of two blind students I have in the class, and who are bravely attempting a major in Psychology. The text is D. Howell's "Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioural Sciences".
First we scan the text using Omnipage into an electronic version. However, Omnipage skips over math symbols, and we have to edit the output to make it suitable for Jaws, which converts it to voice. When dealing with an entire textbook, this can be very slow work.
This university has a well-resourced Disability Unit that our students can rely on, but my course textbook remains a problem for them.
It would be nice to hear from other people with experience in this kind of process. Perhaps someone has useful suggestions for making it more efficient, or persons to make contact with?
Other than the Howell text, are there perhaps more general materials available for teaching basic applied statistics with blind students?
Frank Bokhorst Psychology Dept. University of Cape Town South Africa
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