SBT: A Translator from Spanish Mathematical Braille to MathML

One of the key issues for integrating blind people into everyday life is education. For many educational subjects, however, there is no suitable assistive technology for blind people. One especially sensitive question facing blind people is learning mathematical language, apart from interacting with...

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Published inComputers Helping People with Special Needs pp. 1207 - 1214
Main Authors Alonso, Fernando, Fuertes, José L., González, Ángel L., Martínez, Loïc A.
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2006
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Blind People
Inclusive Design
Mathematical Language
Mathematical Notation
Screen Reader
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ISBN3540360204
9783540360209
ISSN0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI10.1007/11788713_174

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Summary:One of the key issues for integrating blind people into everyday life is education. For many educational subjects, however, there is no suitable assistive technology for blind people. One especially sensitive question facing blind people is learning mathematical language, apart from interacting with sighted teachers and students. This article presents a Spanish mathematical Braille to mathematical notation (MathML) conversion system to fill this gap. The translation system has been designed as a portable programming library, it solves ambiguities in Spanish mathematical Braille and it generates an intermediate code, which means that it can be easily adapted to other Braille languages or to other output formats.
ISBN:3540360204
9783540360209
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/11788713_174