[Blindmath] Mathematica

Thu Oct 15 00:14:58 UTC 2009

>From Wolfram Technical Support:

The only example that I know of for someone connecting a braille
device to Mathematica was an optical physicist, 
   http://www.wolfram.com/news/strickland.html 
(This story was from 2004.) 

Connecting to the Mathematica kernel, rather than the typesetting 
front end, might be more effective.  Depending on the available 
drivers and interfaces for the inftyreader or other braille device, 
one could probably connect to it with MathLink (C language) or 
J/Link (Java language).  

My apologies for the delay. 

Bruce Miller
Technical Support
Wolfram Research, Inc. 
support at wolfram.com
http://support.wolfram.com/  

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From: Stewart Dickson <MathArt at Emsh.CalArts.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:09:04 -0500
Subject: [Fwd: [Blindmath] Mathematica]
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Would you have any solutions to connecting Mathematica to Braille I/O 
devices?
(inftyreader)

Thanks,

-Stewart Dickson,  http://us.imdb.com/Name?Stewart+Dickson
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[Blindmath] Mathematica
Date: 	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:32:39 +0200
From: 	Liesbeth Blankhart <e.c.blankhart at planet.nl>
Reply-To: 	Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics 
<blindmath at nfbnet.org>
To: 	<blindmath at nfbnet.org>

Hello all, 
I am new to all this. My son Kees is a braille student, 18, he's just started Physics at the university of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and practically the first to do this over here. As you can imagine, we face a lot of challenges. One of them is, the faculty uses the software programme Mathematica, an algebraic calculator. Kees is not able to transfer this programme to his braille device. Does anyone have experience with this, or do you know similar software that does work with a braille device? 
Kees uses inftyreader to transfer pdf to LateX and is now learning to read this, but it is a slow process. Does it work better with human readable LateX?
Any other tips are most welcome. Physics and maths are absolutely Kees' talents, bur overcoming all these mountains can sometimes be demotivating. 
Thanks in advance, 
Elisabeth Blankhart
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Mr. Dickson,

Thank you for forwarding this email. 

The only example that I know of for someone connecting a braille
device to Mathematica was an optical physicist, 
   http://www.wolfram.com/news/strickland.html 
(This story was from 2004.) 

Connecting to the Mathematica kernel, rather than the typesetting 
front end, might be more effective.  Depending on the available 
drivers and interfaces for the inftyreader or other braille device, 
one could probably connect to it with MathLink (C language) or 
J/Link (Java language).  

My apologies for the delay. 

Bruce Miller
Technical Support
Wolfram Research, Inc. 
support at wolfram.com
http://support.wolfram.com/  

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