Re: Papers on Speaking Math to the visually impaired
- From: "black ares" <matematicianu2003@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:41:24 +0300
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:
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> 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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