It was your mention of being a mathematics lecturer which confused me somewhat.
Will you be having any braille using students on the Diploma course?
George
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Hello,
As a former Mathematics professor and computer software engineer, I fail to see
what support for Mathematics in D.B.T would have to do with such a program.
In fact, Nemeth Braille would perhaps be an impediment in such a course since
you would have to translate back and forth between Nemeth and computer code.
Especially for a one-year certificate in Information Technology as implied by
the author.
As an aside, I see no problems in creating such a program, other than the
barrier of learning English computer terminology and code fragments. Languages
such as HTML and SQL depend on English to a great extent as far as i know.
Konchog
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Subject: [duxuser] Re: Is a Diploma in IT accessible enough for a blind student?
The overall question is off topic – however….
The Duxbury Braille Translator is able to produce mathematical braille for any
braille reading students.
George
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Sent: 31 October 2016 12:11
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Subject: [duxuser] Is a Diploma in IT accessible enough for a blind student?
Hello to the DuxUser community!
My name is Saaqib Mahmood; I'm a visually impaired person from Abbottabad,
Pakistan, with an MPhil in Mathematics and working as a mathematics lecturer at
a mainstream college run by the local provincial government.
The Pakistan Association of the Blind (PAB) is looking forward to starting a
one-year Diploma in Information Technology (DIT) program for the blind students
at their national Resource and Training Center (RTC) in Karachi.
This DIT program, administered by the Sindh Board of Technical Education
(SBTE), includes courses such as programming in C, VB.Net, and JAVA; web page
designing and creation in HTML and other allied tools; and similar other
high-tech courses in the field of computer science and information technology.
I would be happy to send you the complete course outline.
Is there any precedent of blind people taking and successfully completing such
courses with the help of screen reading software such as JAWS and NVDA?
If so, then can you put me in touch with any individual or organisation who can
provide us technical support as and when we need?
Regards.
Yours Faithfully,
Saaqib Mahmood,
Lecturer in Mathematics,
Government Postgraduate College (GPGC) No. 1,
Abbottabad, PAKISTAN
Phone: +92-334-541-7958 (mobile + WhatsApp + Skype + Viber)
Email: saaqib1978@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:saaqib1978@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Skype: saaqib.mahmood
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