Accessibility/Math Accessibility
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Background info
- Math and accessibility survey -- excellent paper on presenting math in Braille or text-to-speech
Braille math codes
- Nemeth (United States, Cambodia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, and Western Samoa.
- Nemeth with modifications for Greek (Greece)
- UEBC (Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria and South Africa)
- British (U.K.)
- Marburg (Germany, Austria, Poland)
- Modified Marburg Braille for Chinese (China)
- Stuttgart (8 dot Braille, used with German Braille, not common)
- Lambda (8 dot Braille, also used as intermediate translation medium)
- French
- Italian
- Spanish
- Japanese
- Bharati code (India)
- Israeli
Math translation libraries
| Project | License | Coded in | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| liblouisxml | LGPL | C | MathML | Nemeth, Marburg, British |
| latex-access | GPL | Python | TeX/LaTeX | Nemeth. Also does TTS. |
| UMCL | LGPL | C and XSLT | MathML, working on TeX/LaTeX | French (including 3 versions), Marburg, British, Nemeth and Italian |
| BrlTex | RPL (Reciprocal) | Python | TeX | British |
| xtrans | Java | HTML | HTML | |
| MathTran | GPL | Python | MathML or TeX | TeX or MathML (no Braille) |
| Lambda | Proprietary | Unknown | MathML? | Lambda code, Nemeth and "the most popular European national codes" |
| MAVIS/Duxbury | Proprietary | Unknown | TeX | Nemeth, British, UEBC and French |
| WIMATS | Proprietary | Unknown | Unknown | Nemeth |
