Archambault, D;Fitzpatrick, D;Gupta, G;Karshmer, AI;Miesenberger, K;Pontelli, E

COMPUTERS HELPING PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS: PROCEEDINGS

Towards a universal maths conversion library

2004

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The study of Mathematics and Sciences have always been a difficult problem for blind students especially because of the complexity of Braille mathematical notations. Various projects developed converters allowing people to translate a formula from mainstream notations (like LATEX or MathML) to Braille notations and vice versa. Today a new generation of tools aims at facilitating the understanding of the formulas by blind users, and the communication between sighted and Braille users. The project of Universal Maths Conversion Library is born from the decision of 6 organisations both American and European to join their efforts in that field.