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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Cath and Sean,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank you both so much for the information you shared. I learned a lot from the suggestions you offered. The Disability Resource Center and I will present some of these options
to engineering faculty later this week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Sean Keegan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 03, 2013 8:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] alternatives to handwritten math answers posted online<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Dean,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The short answer is yes - for an online situation, MathML is your best alternative. That being said, I have not been having the best success with MathPlayer and IE right now, so there are no guarantees it would work for a student who requires
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<p class="MsoNormal">Depending on the people involved, Cath's suggestion is how we would likely proceed as well. Using the handwriting recognition tools with MathType in Windows, you could meet the professor "halfway" in that the equations could be handwritten
with the caveat that it would require MS Word.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have had this situation a few times and our alt format team ended up doing the conversions for such solution sets. Those scanned documents can be a real nightmare as the handwriting can be a mess to decipher so as to convert into MathType+MathML.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I do think there may be some options with the Central Access Reader from Central Washington Univ (<a href="http://www.cwu.edu/central-access/reader">http://www.cwu.edu/central-access/reader</a>) in that the professor could provide the documents
as MS Word+MathType and the student could then use the CAR application to read the content; no need to deal with MathML.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In general, though, my recommendation is to at least use MathType+MS Word (or Scientific Notebook) so as to streamline the conversion into a format that uses MathML. This could be for a web page, MS Word document, or DAISY+Math book.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Take care,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sean<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Oct 3, 2013, at 12:14 PM, "Brusnighan, Dean A." <<a href="mailto:dabrus@purdue.edu">dabrus@purdue.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What alternatives can our Disability Resource Center (DRC) suggest to an engineering professor who likes to scan his handwritten homework answers and post them online? To my knowledge, there
is not currently a student with a disability in the course. The DRC is being proactive.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Is a MathML document the only viable alternative?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks in advance!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dean</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dean Brusnighan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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