The View Point

PhD study can help the blind, visually impaired read mathematical equations and diagrams


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Blind or visually impaired persons access documents by using a screen reader that reads a text out loud or displays it on a special hardware braille device. However, a large body of technical and scientific material remains inaccessible to them because mathematical equations and diagrams are represented as images and not as text that a screen reader can read. Our next guest has found a new method that could make it easier for visually impaired persons to read graphical information. We are joined by…

Guest: Dr. Rynhardt Kruger, Researcher and Developer in Voice Computing at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) 

 

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