[Iabs-talk] Fw: Braille Mathematics Transcribing Software by Imperial College Student

[Joe Orozco]

Subject: Braille Mathematics Transcribing Software by Imperial College 
Student


Mr. Orozco:

We are Window For the Blind, a group of year 3 students from the Electrical 
and Electronic department of Imperial College. We are currently working on a 
project concerning the Braille Mathematics Transcription System.



The overarching motivation for this project is to make Braille mathematics 
more readily available to Braille readers and teachers of Braille. In doing 
so, the worldwide library of easily available texts in Braille mathematics 
will be expanded which may encourage more blind people to study in 
mathematics or engineering fields.



We are developing a software based Braille mathematics transcription system, 
which enables a sighted mathematician to enter and edit mathematics notation 
from a QWERTY keyboard which is then displayed on screen in standard 
mathematical notation. When the mathematician is satisfied that the 
on-screen display is an accurate transcription of the original mathematics, 
it is then automatically converted in to Braille and output onto a Braille 
embosser. Our ultimate goal is for people to convert word documents into 
Braille simply by importing them to our system.



Enclosed please find our questionnaire concerning some aspects of the 
Braille transcription system. Your participation in this questionnaire would 
be very helpful for the development of our transcription system which may 
benefit many blind people in the future. We would appreciate if you want to 
forward this questionnaire to any people who would like to be involved. 
Thank you very much for your kind attention. We are looking forward to 
hearing from you soon.





Best Regards,

Window For the Blind

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