Lambda: A multimodal approach to making mathematics accessible to blind students

Eighth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 48-54

  Edwards, Alistair D N ^a   McCartney, Heather ^a   Fogarolo, Flavio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Ministry of Education   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blind students; Braille; Mathematics education; MathML; Synthetic speech

Indexed keywords

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; MODAL ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TEACHING;

BLIND STUDENTS; BRAILLE; MATHEMATICS EDUCATION; SYNTHETIC SPEECH;

STUDENTS;

EID: 34247339407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1168987.1168997     Document Type: Conference Paper

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