[BlindMath] Question About Backtranslation of Nemeth Math

[J Acheson]

As a TVI, I feel this type of application would be quite beneficial to students, especially those in middle and senior high school in basic to advanced courses. We want to encourage our students to use electronica devices when possible so they may interact with their teachers and peers with less lag time. I am especially thinking of those students who will not be going on to pursue careers in STEM fields and thus be less likely to dedicate themselves to learning MathML and other languages to produce and access their work. Certainly others working at higher level math may be interested, but this type of application I can see being immediately useful to pre college students. Should you have a beta version, contact me directly. 

> On Sep 23, 2019, at 12:04 PM, Susan Jolly via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I have a question for the people on this list.
> 
> I believe that it would be valuable for students who are using Nemeth math
> as the basis for studying math in STEM subjects to be able to automatically
> backtranslate their Nemeth math to a format which can be displayed as
> standard print math. My question is this: do the people on this list agree
> with me that such a capability would be useful and would actually be used?
> 
> The reason I want to know whether or not others agree with me on this issue
> is because I've developed a free and open source Java app to backtranslate
> digital Nemeth math to MathML. (The app only recognizes electronic files,
> not embossed braille.) However since I can't provide the necessary
> infrastructure for distributing and maintaining this software, I would need
> to find an organization and a developer to take it on. And there's obviously
> no point in my trying to do this unless there are a number of other people
> who think such a capability is worth the effort.
> 
> Thank you,
> Susan Jolly
> 
> 
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