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Entry updated: January 2005
Categories: Research Projects, Accessibility
Home Page: http://www.dessci.com/accessibility
Design Science is investigating ways of making mathematical expressions accessible to people with print disabilities, including blindness, low vision, dyslexia and other learning disabilities. The project seeks to develop software that enables screen readers and other assistive technology products to seamlessly handle embedded MathML. To date, Design Science extended MathPlayer to speak and synchronously highlight MathML expressions in Web pages, and has worked with leading assistive technology vendors to integrate speech generation, navigation and highlighting for math and text. This work was supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Future plans include improving algorithms, and extending support to other electronic document formats.
Entry updated: September 2005
Categories: Converters, Research Projects, Accessibility
Home Page: http://lpf-esi.fe.up.pt/~audiomath/index_en.html
Author: Helder Ferreira
AudioMath is a research project, since 2003, that studies the MathML Audio Rendering.
During this project some tools have been created: AudioMathEngine (a set of algoritms capable to convert MathML into a comprehensive text that can be spoken out), AudioMathGUI (a nice demo GUI that allows the user to navigate through MathML expressions and listen to them), and AudioMathWEB (an on-line conversion service, working as an accessibility service).
Currently it only supports European Portuguese but you can try it in: http://lpf-esi.fe.up.pt/~audiomath/demo/index_en.html
Categories: Authoring Systems, Accessibility
Home Page: http://handy.univ-lyon1.fr/projets/bramanet/
Vendor: Mission Handicap
BraMaNet is An XSL Style Sheet that translates MathML (Presentation tags only) into French Mathematical Braille. It has a user-friendly VB interface and can be used together with MathType to translate Word Documents into Braille for printing.
Entry updated: January 2005
Categories: Research Projects, Accessibility
Home Page: http://karshmer.lklnd.usf.edu/~igroupuma/
The work of Group UMA is to build automatic translators between various Braille based math notations as well as presentation tools to help the users better read complex equations. Then, for example, a blind mathematician in Germany can convert his Marburg math representation to Nemeth and email it to a colleague in the United States, or into French notarion to send to a French colleague
Entry updated: January 2005
Categories: Research Projects, Accessibility
Home Page: http://www.lambdaproject.org
Linear Access to Mathematic for Braille Device and Audio-synthesis: An integrated and innovative system to manage scientific documents with Braille peripherals and voice synthesis.
The Lambda system is based upon integration between a linear code, which can be immediately converted through MathML, and a mathematical editor which is designed to meet the educational needs of both students and teachers. The whole system is flexible and entirely configurable. There are different mathematical Braille codes in different countries, so the Lambda project allows customisation of the Braille code to meet the local standard. At the same time it ensures portability by its foundation in the MathML standard code.
Entry updated: April 2004
Categories: Browser plugins, scripts and extensions, Accessibility
Home Page: http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/
Vendor: Design Science
MathPlayer™ is a high-performance MathML engine for Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser. It requires Internet Explorer for Windows version 6.0 and later. We make MathPlayer available for free in order to accelerate the adoption of MathML in the math, science, and education communities.
Entry updated: November 2006
Categories: Accessibility, Converters, Stylesheets to/from MathML
Home Page: http://natbraille.free.fr/
Author: Bruno Mascret
Vendor: NatBraille
NAT is a free universal translator which converts standards inputs (text, openoffice, word+mathtype) into Braille
Last update: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:33:17 +0200