A friend is going to get his GED soon, and was wondering if there were any specific practice tests/study materials that he could use that are accessible? He mainly uses macOS and iOS, but he knows NVDA and JAWS but doesn't have a Windows computer.
He is completely blind.
By Levi Gobin, 29 January, 2025
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Found something from the "Official" GED website
I found a link to Accessible Resources on GED.com, but when I clicked on preview test on the language arts test, and the others as well, I was taken to the same exact page with the links to all of the tests. weird
an update
My friend went ahead and took the regular practice test after creating an account on the ged.com website. It appears to be relatively accessible except for one slight annoyience:
Some math expressions do not fully describe what they are. For example:
12 + 15 ÷ 3 × 6 – 4
or
"Simplify: (2 9×3 5)×(2 4 ×3) 2)"
For those reading with a screen reader, some of the expressions had spaces in between them, such as 2 9. I, and my friend don't have any idea on how to simplify that expression.
If it wasn't spaces that were a problem, it was the use of an endash "–" character, which still read as "6 4" as shown in the first example.
Spell Math by Character
Hi, I believe your em-dash is a minus sign. Try reading the expressions by character (one symbol at a time). On the phone with VoiceOver, do this by setting your rotor to Characters and swiping down to spell one symbol after another. When I do this, the example expressions read fine.
Also, consider setting your punctuation level to "Most". That will ensure that the dashes and parentheses are spoken.
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any further questions.