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 …