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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.

This talk introduces a new prototype of a two-dimensional piezo-electric tactile display. Examples from geometry are discussed.

This talk illustrates support services at university in Slovakia and Moldova. Especially the experiences at Comenius University and Moldova State University are discussed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In order for a technological aid to be efficient and efficacious in the educational sphere, it must increase the chances and capabilities of the pupil with
a disability, and respect the user’s requirements and characteristics while avoiding forcing. Therefore it should be easy for teachers to understand and
use. This is the result our research group has reached upon concluding a period of experimentation of software developed by us called BlindMath.

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.

With MathML-in-DAISY being formally accepted as the first modular DAISY extension by the DAISY consortium, it is now possible to produce and use scientific
books for the blind containing formulae which conform to an international standard. In my speech, I will describe the implementation of mathematical equations
into DAISY books and the manifold possibilities arising from this application. Furthermore, a short outlook into the future of exchangeable books overcoming
traditional notation obstacles will be given.