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<span>You may want to look at <a title="https://www.nwea.org/content/uploads/2017/06/Image-Description-Guidelines-for-Assessments-2017.pdf" href="https://www.nwea.org/content/uploads/2017/06/Image-Description-Guidelines-for-Assessments-2017.pdf">NWEA Image
Description Guidelines for Assessments</a>. The point in these guidelines is how to describe various types of content without clueing the answer. There is a section on graphs.</span></div>
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<span>On the automated front, the <a title="https://learn.desmos.com/accessibility" href="https://learn.desmos.com/accessibility">
Desmos graphing calculator</a> provides audio tracing of graphs, which is another method of providing access.</span></div>
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<span>Although it is no longer being updated the <a title="https://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/mde/" href="https://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/mde/">
Math Description Engine</a> that is part of MathTrax will create automated text descriptions of graphs which you can copy and paste.</span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 18, 2019 2:42 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> athen-list@u.washington.edu <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Graphing functions</font>
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It’s been a while since I’ve worked on Math accessibility, and could use a little help. I have some Math instructors who are trying to create handouts and we’ve run into a snag with graphs of functions. Normally my recommendation would be to describe the graph/function
using points, what the lines are doing visually, etc. However, the answer that I received from instructors was if we describe the graph that way, it would give the answer away.
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Are there other recommendations for describing the graph, or graphing tools?</p>
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Rachel Ford</p>
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