Universal Design for Math Learning
Lately there has been a lot of discussion about accessible instructional materials. This article is great because it highlights the challenges that are faced for making sure that math texts are accessible by all. As you know, math equations are not always easily recognized by text to speech programs. Here is an excerpt from the article by Steve Noble, Director of Accessibility Policy Design Science:
The use of digital texts, however, has been largely focused on providing access to standard literary materials, rather than to math content. Higher level math access with assistive technologies is particularly problematic, due to the fact that common scanning and optical character recognition (OCR) technologies used to convert print materials to digital form cannot process complex math symbols, and publisher created digital resources commonly use inaccessible graphical images of math equations.
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