accessible GED practice/testing websites/apps

By Levi Gobin, 29 January, 2025

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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.

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By Levi Gobin on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 22:50

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 รท 3 ร— 6 โ€“ 4
or
"Simplify: (2 9ร—3 5)ร—(2 4 ร—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 "โ€“" character, which still read as "6 4" as shown in the first example.