Towards making mathematics a first class citizen in general screen readers
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 43270490
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1145/2596695.2596700
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- W4A 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference
- First page
- 1
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- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
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- Citation count
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Providing access to mathematical formulas for visually impaired readers is a very challenging task without specialist technology. This papers develops a novel methodology for the integration of mathematical content into generic screen reading technology. It is based on a combination of pattern recognition techniques and semantic analysis that allows for voicing of formulas irrespective of differing syntactic composition.
The paper is the foundation of an open source system that is widely used in commercial and non-commercial tools.
It also serves as the basis of the mathematics accessibility solution for most learning management systems and scientific publishers.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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