u/Catca_Birch_2024

Hey guys, so my school is purchasing for me to have on loan the humanware monarch refreshable tactile display for use in my mathematics courses. I have to take pre-calculus and calculus towards my computer science degree. While the monarch has a graphing calculator, it seems to have difficulty rendering pre-generated images. I tried to provide a workflow for my college to export graphs in SVG format from Desmos, but it doesn’t seem like they have a workable solution for pre-generated images. While I can use the graphing tool on the device myself, the ability to have it view effectively pre-generated images of graphs and other geometric things is pretty essential to the course. Does anybody have any suggestions on a potential workflow or file formats that would enable the monarch to view pre-generated graphs and other images with proper labeling? I would also need proper tactile representations of circles with angles and radians. There are just a lot of visual components of such courses that would make it hard without proper tactile rendering. The shapes of certain geometric figures and graphs aren’t the problem so much as it is to have proper braille labeling while also maintaining the proper geometry of things.

Hey guys, I’m typing this in a rush using dictation so if there are any typos, just don’t take offense. Does anybody experience wrist pain while reading braille. I went to the doctors the other day because my right wrist was hurting and they told me I had tendinitis. They basically just said to use common sense and gave me some anti-inflammatory medication. The doctor said whatever hurts just don’t do it. I’ve tried to modify and adapt my brail reading strategies to minimize wrist aching, but it feels like I inflamed my wrist again today This is the first time that something like this has ever happened to me. My hope as is that it won’t be an ongoing thing because I have a pre-calculus class coming up, which will require me to use math and do a lot of heavy braille reading and typing.