Disabled Readers in Parallel Worlds: Inspirational Stories of Triumph
Explore the captivating journey of disabled readers in parallel worlds, showcasing their resilience and achievements in the face of challenges. Discover the extraordinary individuals who defied odds and excelled in fields like mathematics, science, and academia despite their disabilities.
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Through the looking glass The parallel worlds of disabled readers 22/03/2025 1 www.jisctechdis.ac.uk
Alternative ways of thinking - 1 "My teachers say I'm addled . . . my father thought I was stupid, and I almost decided I must be a dunce . Michael Faraday The most prolific mathematician of all time with almost half of his 800 + outputs written after he was blind Leonhard Euler "You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills." Leonardo Da Vinci 22/03/2025 2 www.jisctechdis.ac.uk
Alternative ways of thinking - 2 The first to demonstrate topologically how a sphere can be turned inside out. Not distracted by the appearance Bernard Morin 22/03/2025 3 www.jisctechdis.ac.uk
Alternative ways of thinking - 3 Lev Pontryagin - Soviet mathematician who went blind at fourteen. Laid the foundations for the abstract theory of the Fourier transform, now called Pontryagin duality. In topology, he posed the basic problem of cobordism theory. . Nicholas Saunderson - English mathematician who went blind at the age of twelve months, Lucasian Professor at Cambridge and Fellow of the Royal Society. One of the earliest candidates for discovering Bayes Theorem. 22/03/2025 4 www.jisctechdis.ac.uk
Making a difference PRACTICE Described images
Making a difference PRACTICE Maths/ formulae in Code not image MathJax / MathML enlarged Inline image enlarged
Making a difference POLICY Who is responsible for Identifying heading levels and structural navigation? Describing images or graphs? Tip: Nature Publishing policy with complex images
Making a difference POLICY The upside down supply chain. My learners need your content. My organisation is legally obliged to provide it in an accessible format Tutors ask me to pay to licence this content which uses this delivery system to give learner direct access to the content you created If it goes wrong and I spend 600 per book on recreating my own accessible version what might any reasonable person do?
Policy vulnerabilities Google Chrome FireFox Internet Explorer v 11 MathML support across browsers is very variable. This has implications for e-Readers and other devices built on browser technologies. 22/03/2025 9 www.jisctechdis.ac.uk
Hope or hopeless? The IE story Internet Explorer 8/9 plus MathPlayer (free download) But . And . Maths player doesn t work on IE 10. So can t be used on Windows 8 PCs And speaks the expressions accurately. 22/03/2025 10 www.jisctechdis.ac.uk
Will Tablets and eReaders save us? Safari on iPad but VoiceOver describes this equation as unpronounceable characters . Only iBooks with iOS7 can read some MathML aloud. 22/03/2025 11 www.jisctechdis.ac.uk
And MathJax? Google Chrome FireFox Internet Explorer 11 Beautiful across many browsers but MathJax is accessible to screenreaders through MathPlayer see previous issues with IE10, Windows 8 etc. 22/03/2025 12 www.jisctechdis.ac.uk
Making a difference POLICY Key take home messages: If it s new to you start somewhere by doing something practical (see earlier slides) and telling customers / partners what you are doing and why. If you are already doing the right things make sure you engage with supply chain partners to ensure they don t undermine you and boast about your good practices to end users.
Last word from a dyslexic scientist They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. Thomas Edison
