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The LAMBDA system aims at facilitating blind students to write, read and process text and mathematical expressions in an educational context.
Mathematical expressions and text are presented to the user in a linear formon the braille display and through speech output. Visual rendering in a linear
form enables the sighted reader to understand what the blind user is writing.
Asynchronous two-dimensional visual rendering of mathematical notation is available. Many editing and exploration operations are available. The LAMBDA

This talk introduces challenges and achievements in localizing scientific software for blind users for Slovak language. Especially, attention is drawn on the LAMBDA system.

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.

UMCL is a programming library encapsulating various converters for different Braille codes and which enables developers of applications designed for visually
impaired people to easily support multiple Braille Mathematical notations. To make this possible without increasing the complexity an architecture based
on a MathML (Presentation MathML) as the central representation of the formula was developed. This architecture is quite simple. It includes a main module

Since 1991, the University of Linz has been supporting people with special needs in university education. Support is provided in a triple manner: at school
- to find a decision for a university course -, during university studies, and afterwards, to enter the labour market.
We describe our far-reaching set of support services, and we report about our experience with it.

Infty tools include InftyReader, and optical character recognition software for mathematical formulae, and ChattyInfty, a multimodal editor to write and read mathematics through Braille and speech devices. This talk introduces these tools by discussing examples. Further information can be found at the Science Access Net Website

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.

The talk will discuss features of OpenOffice.org and the OpenDocument Format that are related to mathematical notation: from editing and reading mathematics
in OpenOffice.org to the output formats (Portable Document Format, MathML, XHTML). The accessibility features of each of these aspects will determine if
and how OpenOffice.org, which has a much smaller market size than Microsoft Office, can play a role in access to mathematics for students and researchers
with a visual impairment.

Two years ago the Support centre for visually impaired students at Comenius University in Bratislava started with localization of Lambda editor. After successful
adaptation some few blind secondary school students were equipped with the software.
The first part of presentation informs about our experience with this system, about the localization process of Lambda.
In the second part offers the basic information about Lambda courses for secondary schoole students and teachers, about experiences collected during these

Prof. John Gardner introduces ViewPlus Technologies tools to access scientific papers. Collaboration between ViewPlus Technologies and the American Physics Society in making physics papers accessible to blind and partially sighted readers is discussed.