Accessibility/Math Accessibility

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Background info:

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