Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• UMA: A System for Universal Mathematics Accessibility

  A. I. Karshmer, G. Gupta, E. Pontelli, K. Miesenberger, N. Ammalai, D. Gopal, M. Batusic, B. Stöger, B. Palmer, H-F. Guo (2004) — Proceedings of the 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets 04)

  This paper presents the Universal Mathematics Accessibility (UMA) system, a multi-institution collaboration to make mathematical content interoperable between the notation systems used by blind and sighted individuals. The fundamental problem is that…

  • mathematical accessibility
  • braille
  • visual impairment
  • STEM accessibility
  • MathML
  • Nemeth Braille
  • aural navigation
  • format conversion
  • assistive technology

• Online Nemeth Braille Input/Output Using Content MathML

  Samuel S. Dooley, Susan Osterhaus, Dan Brown, Edgar Lozano, Su H. Park (2016) — Proceedings of the 13th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This extended abstract presents a software system that enables automatic two-way conversion between printed mathematical notation and Nemeth Braille, using Content MathML as an intermediary representation. Access to mathematical content remains one o…

  • braille
  • mathematics accessibility
  • STEM accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • MathML
  • equation editors
  • Nemeth Braille