[Blindmath] Computer-supported math access

[Michael Whapples]

Thanks for all those links. Yes I was aware of some of the research, 
however sadly much of it doesn't seem to have made it into a nice 
intergrated access solution. Another thing that sometimes gets me 
irratated about this is that a sighted person buys there computer and is 
able to read maths on the web (eg. firefox includes mathml support, or 
mathplayer adds the support to IE), whereas I have to obtain an 
additional piece of software to access the computer (many of which are 
very expensive, costing more than some computers) and yet that software 
doesn't allow me to read maths. Why haven't they picked up on any of 
this research which has already been done?

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Susan Jolly wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> There's actually been a lot of work on using the computer to support 
> math access.  I'd say this has been going on for at least 15 years. 
> Unfortunately, most of it doesn't seem to have made it out of academia.
>
> There is a good overview in the paper "Mathematics and Accessibility.: 
> There is a link to a PDF version partway down this page.  I hope the 
> paper is accessible!
> http://www.utdallas.edu/~gupta/
>
> Dominique Archambault in France has also done a lot of work in this area.
> Scroll down past the French to the sentence starting "The need for 
> accessibility is growing...." to read about some of his recent work.
> http://chezdom.net/blog/?p=83#more-83
>
> The topic you mention is addressed off and on at various conferences 
> including CSUN, ICCHP, and  ACM SIGACCESS ASSETS.
>
> Hopefully some of the people directly involved in this research will 
> respond.
>
> Susan
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