[Nfb-science] Question about nemeth braille

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
For a few reasons, I have looked a little at nemeth braille, and the
code seems understandable to me, but there is one bit that I am puzzling
at. From what I have seen of it (when some of my notes have been
produced in nemeth rather than BAUK, and when looking at how Alastair
Irving's LaTex access scripts are coming on) I noticed that it seems
like = and kappa are the same. Is this right, or how are you meant to
know what is meant?

Also, one of the reasons why I was looking at nemeth is that I will be
giving a talk about maths accessibility for the blind, and I felt as
mathspeak (I think) is based on nemeth rules and nemeth has such a
following, it could not go unmentioned as a system used. Would anyone be
interested in a recording of the talk (if I can get permission for a
recording)? The talk will head in the direction of what technology has
done for accessibility in maths, what needs to be done to make maths
accessible with technology (e.g. mathml rather than html with image
equations), and what still needs to be tackled, while covering some of
the basics of how maths can be done by the blind. It is going to be
aimed at staff (not necessarily any previous experience with the blind)
for how they can support students, and where the difficulties may lie.

From
Michael Whapples