[BlindMath] Zoom meeting on accessible math: Thu 11 Feb 6:30 to 7:30 UK time

[Neil Soiffer]

I hope anyone who is interested in the Digitization and E-Inclusion in
Mathematics and Science 2021 conference that David mentioned will attend
(or watch a video from if the hours don't work out for you). However, I do
want to caution that this is a research-oriented conference that talks
about approaches to solve problems, not software that is ready for everyone
to use today. It can be very informative as to the technical problems with
accessibility and approaches to overcome them in the future. Understanding
why a problem exists is almost always a good thing.

Despite what they say for the registration deadline, I think they are still
taking new registrations. I suspect the deadline existed when they hoped to
have the conference in person and that never got updated when they gave up
on the idea (the original web pages probably were created last spring).

    Neil


On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 9:15 AM Brandon Keith Biggs via BlindMath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> It looks like registration ended on January 18.
> I would love to just attend the LaTeX session.
> Thanks,
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 3:31 AM David Farmer via BlindMath <
> blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > This conference next Thursday and Friday, February 18 and 19,
> > may be of interest to those who have been following the thread
> > on LaTeX and PDF accessibility:
> >
> > http://workshop.sciaccess.net/deims2021/index.html
> >
> > The title of the conference is:
> >
> > The 4th International Workshop on
> > "Digitization and E-Inclusion in Mathematics and Science 2021"
> (DEIMS2021)
> >
> > The third paragraph of the overview is:
> >
> > No matter whether education is face-to-face or distance, digitized
> > documents that are given to all pupils/students should be available in an
> > accessible format. However, digitization of STEM (science, technology,
> > engineering and mathematics) content and its applications have challenges
> > not present in a non-technical field. For example, while many online
> > educational materials are provided in PDF (Acrobat Portable Document
> > Format), the semantic information in mathematical formulas cannot easily
> > be extracted. Formulas are depicted visually as a set of
> > characters/symbols in a two-dimensional layout or an image. Thus, in many
> > cases, it is hard for print-disabled people to read/author those contents
> > although their accessibility is definitely important to achieve a truly
> > inclusive society even in this crisis.
> >
> > The conference is free but registration is required.
> > The deadline was last month (I just found out about it),
> > but I sent my registration form anyway.  They wrote back quickly with
> > Zoom links and other information.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > David
> >
> >
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