[accessibleimage] Re: Fwd: RE: Want to draw a state diagram!

Hi Joe,
Believe me, I'm certainly willing and able to go high tech for a lot of things, and I love my Tiger. But sometimes the low tech way is just faster. Since you said that you would be willing to use a braille writer if it would just do the job, I think you would be willing to try a low tech way as well.
I just finished teaching a special programs intensive one week class here to secondary students from throughout Texas on Adaptive Tools and Technology for Accessible Mathematics, and every one of them was able to draw a Venn diagram with very simple tools and very little instruction in a short period of time. The Venn diagram they drew consisted of two overlapping circles, but they could have even more easily drawn the graphic you describe. After drawing their diagram, they then inserted it into a braille writer and labeled one circle X and the other circle Y. They also inserted numbers inside Circle X and Circle Y and in the overlap section.
Place a piece of braille paper on a Sewell Raised Line Drawing Board. (If you don't have one, a piece of art foam clipped to a clip board or a rubber mat on a hard surface could substitute.) Take a Howe Press Braille Compass (one pointed leg and one leg with a tracing wheel) and draw your circles as you described. If you don't have the Howe Press compass, use an old-fashioned metal with pencil cheap one that some of us ancient ones used as students. (Several of my students liked both!). Then draw your connecting lines with a ball point pen or a pencil - whatever works for you. On the reverse side, you will have created a beautiful raised line drawing. After completing the drawing, insert it into the braille writer and label in braille. 

Hope this works for you.
Susan

Susan A. Osterhaus, M.Ed.
Secondary Mathematics
Texas School for the Blind
 and Visually Impaired
1100 West 45th Street
Austin, Texas 78756
Phone: 512-206-9305
Fax: 512-206-9320
E-mail: susanosterhaus@xxxxxxxxx
Website: http://www.tsbvi.edu/math/
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Subject: [accessibleimage] Fwd: RE: Want to draw a state diagram!






"Joe Renzi" <renzi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/05/06 11:45 AM >>>

Hi Judy;
Hi Folks!  Can someone help Joe?  If so, please reply to him directly!
Thanks!


"Joe Renzi" <renzi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 11/14/06 3:09 PM >>>


I am a blind student at SDSU taking a logic design course.  I would
like to know if there is a program in which I could put a circle on a
page, put
another circle on a page, connect them with an arrow and Braille label
the connecting line and inside the circle?  Then I would emboss this on
my
Tiger Pro Braille Graphics Printer. I have Iveo and it doesn't let me
draw standard shapes and label them in Braille.  The connecting lines
would
be at weird angles and major diagonals.  These angles depend on how the
circuit changes based on inputs and previous states.  I could do a
representation on a Braille writer if connection lines were simply
vertical or horizontal.  It is these diagonal connections which muddy
the waters.

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Joe Renzi
renzi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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