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Math Accessibility and MathPlayer

@Science — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:40:18 -0600

These are the slides and audio from the talk of Neil Soiffer at the @Science conference "Making Science Accessible: emerging opportunities for blind and partially sighted".

Neil Soiffer's talk shows how Design Science Inc. Technologies can help visually impaired students to exploit mathematical formulae.
He also speaks about the integration of mathematics into the PDF format.

How to produce accessible educational resources

Valeria Brigatti — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:00:57 -0600

These are the slides of my talk at the @Science conference "Making Math Accessible", held on October 20th, 2008.

In this presentation, I illustrate some step-by-step procedures to be followed in order to obtain accessible educational resources with scientific contents, namely, accessible PDFs, XHTML+MathML pages, slide presentations, etc.

Mathematics in DAISY Books

@Science — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:01:23 -0600

An interesting introduction to the DAISY book format, with real time examples of navigation and use of DAISY players, both software and hardware, that Emilia Persoon from Dedicon (the Netherlands) gave at the @Science conference "Making science accessible".

There is also a sneak preview of the gh DAISY Player, the only player at the moment of this writing that plays back the MathML contained in DAISY books.

UMCL: Providing Braille Transcription for Mathematical Applications

@Science — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:46:28 -0600

Dominique Archambault gave this presentation at the @Science conference in Milan, "Making Science Accessible".

During his talk, Archambault presented the features of the Universal Math Conversion Library (UMCL).

How to use JEM to educate about accessible science

@Science — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:39:08 -0700

Olga Caprotti, the manager of our fellow thematic network, JEM, describes the way in which it can help in the efforts of educating about accessibility of science, and of mathematics in particular.

Applications of intelligent systems to enhancing math accessibility - a new project

@Science — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:02:06 -0600

This is the presentation of a new and really interesting project that has just started at the New Mexico State University.
The project is aimed at developing a new generation of tools and solutions to enhance accessibility of mathematics for students with different degrees of visual acuity.
The backbone of the project is the use of techniques drawn from knowledge-based systems, and integrate them to create novel, and hopefully more effective solutions.

Converting arXiv into XHTML+MathML - access to scientific papers

@Science — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:24:44 -0600

This is the presentation that Michael Kohlhase gave at the @Science conference "Making Science Accessible".
He explains what their work is about, namely translating the collection of scientific publications of the Cornell e-Print Archive (arXiv) using the LATEXtoXML converter, which is currently under development.

Using AutOMathic Blocks to teach Braille to children

@Science — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:46:52 -0600

Arthur Karshmer (University of San Francisco) illustrates his project.

The AutOMathic Blocks system has been designed to teach arithmetic and beginning algebra to young blind students using Braille labeled manipulative blocks. The system allows the learner to build, manipulate and solve problems using blocks which contain simple Braille code. This allows the learner to read their math problems with their finger and to understand the two-dimensional mature of math.

Experiences in using computation programs: Mathematica and Matlab

saurocesaretti — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:27:13 -0600

This hands-on presentation by Sauro Cesaretti, a blind student of Computer Science at the Università di Urbino (Italy), shows how to cope with some accessibility issues that arise while using these computation programs.

AudioTact - Autonomous exploration of mathematical functions for blind students

@Science — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:08:13 -0600

These are the slides from the talk given by Timothy Barbieri and Lorenzo Mosca at the @Science conference "Making Science Accessible".
The talk is about a device being developed at the Politecnico of Milan, which will allow blind students to autonomously explore mathematical functions.