Re: Papers on Speaking Math to the visually impaired

as far as I know
there is a plugin for jaws and internet explorer named mathplayer.
This mathplayer knows how to read mathml.
Also the new office 2007 knows how to save in mathml or in xml and with a 
associated xsl to transform that in mathml.

I've saw an example some time ago, but not researched more because for me is 
still a problem to get sources of math documentation in a word accesible format.
I don't know how transforms office 2007 documents written in office 2003.

Another way to go is the latex language.
In my universitary studies in math and computers
I readed a lot of material in latex source.
More than that there is a math ocr named infty reader who reads tif images and 
can make
html, mathml, hrtex, latex from that tif images.
I used it to get out the latex sources from some pdfs.

Also a third way to go is a screen reader for math like wintriangle.

But with all this ways there is not at this moment a confortable way to read 
math with a screen reader as simply as reading literature.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Engebretson 
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 9:35 PM
  Subject: Re: Papers on Speaking Math to the visually impaired


  There are a bunch of knowledgable mathematics folks on the blindMath list.  
Here's some information about it:

  ________________________
  > Blindmath mailing list
  > Blindmath@xxxxxxxxxx
  > http://www.nfbnet.org

  I'm looking forward to any answers to this, too.  I'vm taking statistics and 
financial accounting right now.  It is a big struggle to read the equations 
which are mainly written in Word's equation editor.  Wish there was an 
accessible way to read those equations.

  Cheers,
  David

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Andreas Stefik 
    To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 11:09 AM
    Subject: Papers on Speaking Math to the visually impaired


    Hey everyone,

    A colleague of mine is interested in researching the reading of mathematics 
to blind individuals, a topic I have researched briefly, but not completely. 
I've already read Robert Stevens work, but is there any other 
papers/dissertations/etc folks would recommend reading on the topic before I 
dive in?

    Andreas



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