Resource List for Accessing Math and Science New!

This website was created to provide:

1. high school assistive technology specialists;

2. special education teachers;

3. university professors;

4. staff members of university offices of disability services; and,

5. anyone other interested individuals...

create accessible Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) course materials that are fully-accessible to and usable by students with disabilities.

Contributors:

• Steve Jacobs, steve.jacobs@ideal-group.org

• Gaeir Dietrich, gdietrich@htctu.net

• Steve Noble, steve.noble@louisville.edu

• John Gardner, John.Gardner@ViewPlus.com

Jointly Developed PowerPoint Presentation:

• PowerPoint (800KB download)

Resources and Information:

• 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!

• Mathematics and Accessibility: a Survey by Arthur Karshmer, Gopal Gupta and Enrico Pontelli. (336KB PDF file)
  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:

1. InftyReader, 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!

  • Examples of Recognition Conversions by InftyReader

  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.

  • Beta Speech Recognition (SR) Interface to ChattyInfty

  • 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.

  • Beta Speech Recognition (SR) Interface to InftyEditor

  • 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.

2. MathType, MathPlayer and MathDaisy
   For more information see: http://dessci.com

• MathType

  • Interactive equation editor

• MathPlayer Free application!

  • enables Microsoft Internet Explorer to display mathematical notation in web pages.

• MathDaisy

  • DAISY player software to read your classroom materials in the manner that suits their abilities and preferences best.

3. Duxbury Braille Translator
   For more information see: http://www.duxburysystems.com

• Duxbury Braille Translator

  • 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.

4. Flowchart of how the applications above work together: