Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

5 results found in mathematical accessibility.

AsTeR (Audio System for Technical Readings)
An interactive computing system developed by T. V. Raman in his 1994 PhD thesis at Cornell University that converts LaTeX documents into navigable audio documents. AsTeR parses electronic documents in…
MathML (Mathematical Markup Language)
An XML-based markup language standardized by the W3C for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. MathML enables screen readers and other assistive technologies t…
MathML (Mathematical Markup Language)
A W3C standard XML-based markup language for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. MathML comes in two forms: presentation MathML, which describes how a formul…
Mathematical Accessibility (Math Accessibility, STEM Accessibility)
The practice of making mathematical notation, formulas, equations, and quantitative content accessible to people with disabilities, particularly blind and low-vision users. Mathematical notation poses…
Nemeth Braille Code (Nemeth Code, Nemeth Mathematics Braille)
A system of Braille encoding developed by Abraham Nemeth in 1946 for representing mathematical and scientific notation, widely used in the United States and some other English-speaking countries. The …