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    Mathspeak: An Audio Method for Presenting Mathematical Formulae to Blind Students

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    Authors
    Nazemi, Azadeh
    Murray, Iain
    Mohammadi, N.
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Nazemi, Azadeh and Murray, Iain. 2012. Mathspeak: An Audio Method for Presenting Mathematical Formulae to Blind Students, in the 5th International Conference on Human System Interactions (HSI), Jun 6-8 2012. Perth, Australia: IEEE.
    Source Title
    The proceeding of 5th International Conference on Human System Interaction
    Source Conference
    5th International Conference on Human System Interaction
    DOI
    10.1109/HSI.2012.17
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    Copyright © 2012 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36251
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    Abstract

    This paper describes the problems involved with learning and understanding math for vision impaired students and developing a computer system approach for rendering mathematical formulae into audio form. Access to mathematics is an obstacle for blind students. The lack of easy access to mathematical resources is a barrier to higher education for many blind students and puts them at an unfair disadvantage in school, academia, and industry [1]. Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show that there is great disparity between the math skills of students with disabilities and students without disabilities [2]. A methodology for rendering technical documents, in particular, complex mathematical formula, in an audio descriptive form (Mathspeak) is presented in this paper.

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