RFB Symposium on Math and Science Access
Recordings For the Blind (RFB) organized a two-day symposium (May 12--13,
1994) on providing persons with print impairments improved access to
mathematical and scientific documents.
is the initial call for participation describing the goals of this symposium.
AsTeR (Audio System for Technical Readings) enables automatic production
of audio documents. This can result in tremendous savings in both time and
effort in providing alternative access to technical documents, and thereby
increase the availability of such documents in an accessible form.
The interactive nature of AsTeR also enables the user to interact far more
effectively with such documents.
The conference focused on how AsTeR could be moved from being a research
system to one that could:
Here are the official proceedings
from the conference.
Here is a short trip-report describing the outcome
of the conference. An executive summary
of the conference, as well as my
comments are also available.
- Produce books on tape.
- Provide an interactive reading machine system for students. To achieve
this, AsTeR needs to be ported to other computing platforms.
- Produce educational material in Braille.
Last modified: Wed Jun 1 15:27:30 1994