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A Direct TeX-to-Braille Transcribing Method

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Andreas Papasalouros,

Antonis TsolomitisAuthors Info & Claims

ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

Pages 373 - 374

https://doi.org/10.1145/2700648.2811376

Published: 26 October 2015 Publication History

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The TeX/LaTeX typesetting system is the most widespread system for creating documents in Mathematics and Science. However, no reliable tool exists to this day for automatically transcribing documents from the above formats into Braille code. Thus, blind students who study related fields do not have access to the bulk of studying materials available in LaTeX format. We develop a tool, named latex2nemeth, for transcribing directly LaTeX documents to Nemeth Braille, thus facilitating the access of students with blindness to Science.

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A Direct TeX-to-Braille Transcribing Method
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Format and notation
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Assistive technologies
  2. User characteristics
    1. People with disabilities

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ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

October 2015

466 pages

ISBN:9781450334006

DOI:10.1145/2700648

General Chair:
Yeliz Yesilada
Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus
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Jeffrey P. Bigham
Carnegie Mellon University, USA

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Riga PKouroupetroglou G(2024)How Blind Individuals Recall Mathematical Expressions in Auditory, Tactile, and Auditory–Tactile ModalitiesMultimodal Technologies and Interaction10.3390/mti80700578:7(57)Online publication date: 2-Jul-2024
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Hurtado EArteaga LDuta JMuňoz MVizcaíno-Imacaňa PCamacho FBravo-Freire RReinoso-Sánchez PNaranjo AAlmeida-Galárraga DTirado-Espín A(2024)Development of a Python Program for Converting Spanish Math PDFs Into BrailleProceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science, Electronics and Industrial Engineering (CSEI 2023)10.1007/978-3-031-70981-4_18(252-263)Online publication date: 23-Dec-2024
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