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Accessing mathematical information, including inputting and reading mathematical formulas on computer, still has big difficulty and barrier for people who are blind or partially sighted. The paper introduces new progress of assistive technology of mathematical documents and Web pages for Chinese visually impaired people. In the paper, we give two conversion models from MathML to Chinese mathematics Braille and a verbalization method of mathematical formulas in Chinese. The work described in the paper is part of “China Digital Platform of Braille” Web site and can be found in http://www.braille.org.cn.
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We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. This work is supported by Science Foundation of Guangxi (AA17204096, AD16380076) and Innovation Project for Lanzhou Talent (2014-RC-3).
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Su, W., Cai, C., Wu, J. (2018). The Accessibility of Mathematical Formulas for the Visually Impaired in China. In: Fleuriot, J., Wang, D., Calmet, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation. AISC 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11110. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99957-9_18
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