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Welcome to AccessibleMath.org! |
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This website was created to provide schools and universities information designed to help them creating accessible Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) course materials accessible to students with print disabilities.
Contributors:
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Steve Jacobs, steve.jacobs@ideal-group.org
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Gaeir Dietrich, gdietrich@htctu.net
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Steve Noble, steve.noble@louisville.edu
What is a Print Disability?
The definition of a print disability is generally considered a functional definition. That is, a student with a print disability is one who is unable to gain information from printed materials easily (or at all) and needs alternative types of learning materials. Alternative learning materials not only include Braille, large print, audio, digital text, etc., but should also take into consideration the accessibility of distance learning infrastructures designed to accommodate the access needs of students with print (and other) disabilities. Students with print disabilities include students with blindness, visual impairments, specific learning disabilities and/or other physical disabilities. IDEAL Conference® is an example of a fully-accessible, online conferencing and distance-learning system.
Jointly Developed PowerPoint Presentation:
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PowerPoint (800KB download)
Resources and Information:
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Universal Design of College Algebra. A sincere Thank You to Susan McCourt, Mathematics Instructor at Bristol Community College for pointing this resource out to us!
University of San Francisco , USA, E-mail:akarshmer@usfca.edu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA, E-mail:gupta@utdallas.edu, and cNew Mexico State University, USA. E-mail: epontell@cs.nmsu.edu
Working with
MathType and Scientific Notebook
(175KB PDF file)
By Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich, High Tech Center Training Unit of the
California Community Colleges, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
http://www.htctu.net
Detexify2 - LaTeX symbol classifier (online resource)
Anyone who works with LaTeX knows how
time-consuming it can be to find a symbol in
symbols-a4.pdf that you just can't memorize. Detexify is an attempt to
simplify this search. How does it work? Just draw the symbol you are looking
for into the square area above and look what happens!
External Links to Application Websites:
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InftyEditor, ChattyInfty, InftyEditor, LaTeX Installation Kit and SAPI 4 Installation Kit:
For more information see: http://inftyreader.org
InftyReader: Fully-functional 15 day demo (47MB download)
InftyReader is an optical character recognition (OCR) application that recognizes and translates BMP, GIF, PDF, PNG and TIFF images into LaTeX, MathML and Word 2007 XML files automatically!
ChattyInfty: Fully-functional 15 day demo (5MB download)
ChattyInfty is an extended version of InftyEditor with a plug-in speech interface to output in voice the content of editing data by InftyEditor including math expressions, accordingly to the cursor movement. It is an editor of math documents with voice output, usable by people with visually impairments.
Please see LaTeX Installation Kit Ver.2.5 below
InftyEditor: Free application! (5MB download)
InftyEditor is an authoring tool of mathematical documents. It makes creating and editing mathematical expressions easy and intuitive.
Please see LaTeX Installation Kit Ver.2.5 below
LaTeX Installation Kit Ver.2.5 Free application (57MB download)
Important: Use this kit to install all the components of LaTeX necessary to run InftyEditor's and ChattyInfty's LaTeX functions. For more detail, please see TeXSetup.txt.
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MathType, MathPlayer and MathDaisy
For more information see: http://dessci.com
Interactive equation editor
MathPlayer Free application!
enables Microsoft Internet Explorer to display mathematical notation in web pages.
DAISY player software to read your classroom materials in the manner that suits their abilities and preferences best.
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Duxbury Braille Translator
For more information see: http://www.duxburysystems.com
Provides translation and formatting facilities to automate the process of conversion from regular print to Braille (and vice versa), and also provides word-processing facilities for working directly in the Braille as well as the print. "Fonts" are used for displaying the Braille.
