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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ll add that I tried using the math editor with a Orbit 20, not much luck there. When I tried entering math from the braille keyboard, nothing happened at all.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> athen-list <athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu>
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<b>Subject:</b> [EXT]Re: [Athen] Anyone have experience with the JAWS Braille Math editor<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Deborah,<br>
I've been testing out the JAWS Braille Math Editor for the last 6 months or so, and I've been really pleased with the results.<br>
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As you mentioned, the math authoring options for blind users have been pretty limited. That’s why I’ve been really excited about this JAWS update. The print to braille and braille to print translation is really solid. It’s great to finally have an option that
will allow braille students to author math in braille and have that content immediately available to share with sighted users. There have been similar tools available in the past, but it’s typically been limited to specific devices. JAWS is so widely used
and readily available that I think this is going to have a much broader impact than previous tools.<br>
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Some things you should know about the JAWS math editor: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It uses the Nemeth braille code for input and output</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">. Before the US adopted UEB as its official braille code in 2016, Nemeth was the only technical code
in use for math and science (not including the computer code). After the adoption of UEB, some states chose to use UEB as their technical code, and other states stuck with Nemeth. Depending on the age of your students and where they previously attended school,
they may or may not be familiar with the Nemeth code. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:10.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">
<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">There are some limitations.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> I’ve been able to stump JAWS’ Nemeth translation, but so far I’ve only had issues with fairly obscure symbols, like shapes with
specific fill patterns. I would also expect JAWS to struggle with spatial content, but I haven’t tested this out. Nemeth uses spatial layouts for some content, and the rules for these layouts don’t alway follow the typical Nemeth rules. For that reason, I
would expect the JAWS translation to breakdown if you’re writing something other than in-line expressions.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:10.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">
<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I’m hearing about compatibility issues.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> The feature should work in Word 2019 or in Word 365. Freedom Scientific told me that it might work in “</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">in
later versions of Word 2016”, but it won’t work in earlier versions of Word. The feature will work outside of Word and will copy MathML to the clipboard, but I haven’t tested this much yet.<br>
I’ve also heard that users are having issues with particular braille displays. I’ve been using this feature with Focus 40 and Brailliant 40 displays, and I haven’t had any issues. The tech staff at the Oregon Commission for the Blind told me that they were
having issues when using the feature with the Braille Edge 40 display from HIMS. </span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">One other interesting development is that JAWS can now read math created with the Word Equation Editor. I don’t think it’s time to ditch MathType yet, but it can be good to have options. Aside from this JAWS feature,
I’ve noticed that math created with the Word Equation Editor has more errors than other math tools when translating the content in Duxbury. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hope that helps! I’d be happy to answer any other questions you have about this. I don’t have all of the information, but it’s useful for me to study up on this anyhow.
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