Making Math Accessible

MathDaisy 1.0 is Now Shipping

After lots of hard work, MathDaisy 1.0 has been released.  MathDaisy enhances Microsoft's Save As DAISY add-in for Microsoft Word to convert Word documents containing math notation to DAISY Digital Talking Books, ready to be read by students, teachers, engineers, and scientists with vision and learning disabilities, including blindness, low vision, and dyslexia.

If you are a teacher or professor who has students with vision and learning related disabilities, MathDaisy provides a way for you to produce the accessible materials your students need.  If you are a student, check out the MathPlayer-enabled DAISY book readers listed on our DAISY for Students web page.

For more information on MathDaisy, see the MathDaisy press release or the MathDaisy product page.

MathPlayer to support accessibility in Greek

Design Science is pleased to introduce our newest Accessibility Partner, the University of Athens. Professor Georgios Kouroupetroglou, at the University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, in Athens, Greece, is directing the current development of Greek language support in our MathPlayer technology.

As development of future MathPlayer enhancements continues, we'll be happy to collaborate with other language experts in the mathematics field. Please let us know if you are interested, support@dessci.com .  Sprechen Sie Deutsch, anyone?  Find out more information about our Accessibility Partners.

MathPlayer 2.1 is released

In case you missed it, one of the big accessibility news items from Design Science of late is our release of MathPlayer 2.1, our Internet Explorer plugin for displaying and speaking MathML. MathPlayer 2.1 adds support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and synchronized highlighting of mathematical phrases as they are spoken for those with partial sight and learning disabilities. For more details, please read our MathPlayer 2.1 Press Release or visit the MathPlayer home page.