Supporting Students with Disabilities series… Accessibility in MSOR: one student’s personal experience

This article is a first person account of my experiences of having sat in on the first five weeks of a foundation maths course to see how I would handle maths now that I am visually impaired. I am not a mathematician; I am a PhD student in the Sociology department studying access to materials, including mathematical ones. I was fully sighted when I last did any proper maths and that was a GCSE ten years ago. I did do a small amount of statistics for my MA research methods course, but that was so heavily adapted for me that I did not really engage with any actual maths or stats. Therefore, I decided to take the foundation maths courses to see first hand some of the problems visually impaired students face…