Creating Accessible
Math and Science Materials
Ron
Stewart, Director
Northwest
Center for Technology Access
Oregon
State University
The E-Book Process
§ What is your end product going to be?
§ Audio Book
§ With Navigation
§ Analog or Digital
§ Full Text E-Book
§ What File Format
§ What level of Editing
§ What level of Structure
§ Unedited Electronic Files
§ Braille Book
§ What Grade
§ Unbrailleable Content
§ Material Management
§ Mixed Formats
§ Student preference driven
§ Tactile Image Annotations
E-text Production - Nuts and Bolts
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Decision that need to be made
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Are you going to produce it?
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What are you going to produce?
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What are you going to outsource?
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What file formats will you use?
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How will you staff it?
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How will students access?
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How will control access?
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How will you pay for it all?
What is Required
§ System for Management and Control
§ Editing Workstations
§ Scanning Workstations
§ High Speed Scanner
§ OCR Software
§ File Conversion Software
§ Guillotine
§ VERY QUALIFIED STAFF
§ Clear understanding of the process
Required and Recommended Hardware
§ High Speed Duplexing Scanner
§ Canon, Fujitsu, Panasonic, Kodak
§ Editing Workstations
§ High End PC
§ Ability to Burn CD/DVD
§ Scanning Station
§ The Best you can get
§ SCSI Interface
§ CD/DVD Burner
§ Archival Storage
§ Braille Embosser
§ TIGER Embosser
Required and Recommended Software
§ Scanner Management Software
§ Canoscan
§ OCR Software
§ Omnipage Pro
§ Abby FineReader
§ K3000
§ Editing Software
§ Office Applications
§ Graphics Manipulation Software
§ PDF Conversion Software
§ Mathematical Editing Software
§ E-book Production Software
Math and Scientific Notation
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Math and Symbology
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Word’s built in equation editor
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Scientific Notebook
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Mathtype
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WinTriangle
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TIGER Embosser
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Narrative Descriptions
Future Trends in Math and Science
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Scalable Vector Graphics
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MathML
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MathTalk
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IVEO
Getting Ready to Edit
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Develop a standard archival process
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Scan the book by Chapter
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Save both the Image and RTF files
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Copy RTF file to text editor
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Save File in proper format
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.rtf for TRIANGLE
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.doc for MATHTYPE and Plain Text
Getting Started
§ Standardize the font
§ Standardize the page layout
§ Pages numbers
§ Chapter and Section Headings
§ Comment Before and After
§ Sidenotes, Footnotes, and Endnotes
§ Number
§ Associate appropriately
§ Figures, Charts and Graphs
§ Description or Tactile?
§ Number
§ Associate appropriately
§ Remove all “soft” formatting
Descriptions or Tactiles
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Decide the appropriate format
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What is going to best convey the meaning
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Enlarge, Describe or annotated Tactile
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Complete Descriptions!
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Include all relevant aspects
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Forces
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Directions
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Significant Details
Tables, Problems and Theorems
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Table content is left in the text
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Tables are converted to text
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Tab separate table elements
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Restructure complex tables
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Keep Material Connected
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Theorems and Proofs
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Problems and Solutions
Editing for WinTriangle
§ Edit in Triangle
§ Best End Product
§ Very Time Intensive
§ Edit in Word
§ Requires Specialized Font Set
§ Restricted Key Set
§ Restricted Symbol Set
§ Requires Custom Macros
§ Fractions, Over/Under Script and Vectors
§ Specialized Math Markup
Specialized Formatting
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Standardize your procedures
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Linerize all Notation
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Label appropriately
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Additional notation only as specified
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Quality Control
Equations
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Original from Textbook
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After Editing
Complex Equations
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From Textbook
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After Editing
Matrices
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From Textbook
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After Editing
Superscripts and Subscripts
Editing for TIGER
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Not Screen Reader Friendly
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Produces DotsPlus Content
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Requires a TIGER Embosser
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Create using the Template
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Use Tiger Font Sets
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Math Operations in MathType
Editing In MathType
§ Use MathType Preference File
§ Standardize Spacing
§ Math Style
§ MathType does not always work
§ Tables need to be enlarged.
§ Roman Numeral are
§ Graphics are prepared separately and merged
§ Use Global Find/Replace for uniformity