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Achieving accessibility in mathematics and other scientific fields

Explore the importance of accessibility in mathematics and scientific fields for individuals with disabilities like dyslexia and visual impairments. Learn about types of impairments, verbalizing formulas, and improving content creation tools.

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Achieving accessibility in mathematics and other scientific fields

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  1. Achieving accessibility in mathematics and other scientific fields

  2. Whatisaccessibility?

  3. Types of impairments

  4. Whomdoesitaffect? in thecontext of a Learning Management System such as …

  5. Whendoesaccessibilityplay a role ?

  6. Accessible formulas verbalised

  7. Types of verbalisation

  8. Limits of verbalisation Whathappenswiththedifferencebetween and ?

  9. Thestateof theart “Currently there is a complete mismatch between mainstream software for mathematics and existing screen readers when it comes to multimodal presentations of formulae.  In most cases formulae are printed on the screen using graphical glyphs.  Hence, learning environments are basically unusable for mathematics by people with disabilities such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, and any visual impairment.” Mika Seppälä, Florida State University

  10. Thepluginapproach • Theplug-in transformsthe MathML into a textual descriptionreadyforverbalisation.

  11. Thepluginapproach : weaknesses and strengths

  12. Theimageapproach • Thealternativetextisautomaticallygenerated at themoment of formula creation.

  13. Theimageapproach • The formula isstored as animage. • Theimagecontains a standard tag “alternativetext” with a textual description. • In thisexample: “F open parentheses x close parentheses equal integral subscript a superscript b f open parentheses x close parentheses d x”

  14. Theimageapproach : weaknesses and strengths

  15. Accessibilityforcontentcreators? • Tools can alsosupportthecontentcreationprocessbydifferentlyableprofessionals

  16. Accessibilityforcontentcreators?

  17. Thanksforyourattention carles@wiris.com twitter.com/carles_wiris facebook.com/wirismath

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