A List of technologies used during the project

Please be aware that technologies were discarded during the evaluation process if they were too constrictive or unstable for our purposes or if the results difficult to realistically evaluate. This is not to suggest that these technologies could not fulfill useful roles in enabling access to mathematics or even that we will not return to them in future work. Hence, this list contains technologies that cannot currently be used within our methods as well as those that can.

• TeXLive http://www.imagemagick.org;

• L^aT_eX: We encountered a wide collection of packages incidentally; those tested for a specific purpose are listed below:

  • AMS-L^aT_eX: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/amslatex;

  • beamer: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/beamer;

  • beamerarticle: http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/base/beamerarticle.sty;

  • extsizes: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/extsizes;

  • breqn: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/breqn;

  • geometry: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/geometry;

  • babel: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel;

  • fontenc: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fontenc;

  • verbatim: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/verbatim;

  • spverbatim: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/spverbatim;

  • listings: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/listings;

  • url: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/url;

  • latexsym: http://www.mackichan.com/index.html?techtalk/500.htm;

  • bm: http://ctan.org/pkg/bm.

  • Table environments:

    • tabu: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tabu;

    • longtable: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/longtable;

    • tabulary: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tabulary;

    • tabularx: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tabularx.

  • ntheorem: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ntheorem;

  • thmtools: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/thmtools.

  • Images:

    • Graphicx: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/graphicx;

    • epslatex: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/epslatex;

    • psfrag: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/psfrag;

    • epstopdf-pkg: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/epstopdf-pkg;

    • amscd: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/amscd;

    • xymatrix: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xymatrix;

    • pb-diagram: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pb-diagram;

    • dcpic: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/dcpic.

• Matching brackets to locate L^aT_eX  typos:

  • match_parens: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/match_parens;

  • check-parens: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/check-parens.

• Converting image formats:

  • ImageMagick: http://www.imagemagick.org.

• Visual L^aT_eX  display and editing:

  • LyX: http://www.lyx.org/;

  • BaKoMa: http://www.bakoma-tex.com/.

• L^aT_eX  converters:

  • TeX4ht: http://www.tug.org/tex4ht/;

  • PlasTeX: http://plastex.sourceforge.net/;

  • LaTeXML: http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/;

  • Tralics: http://www-sop.inria.fr/marelle/tralics/;

  • MathJax: http://www.mathjax.org/;

  • LaTeXMathML: http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/drw/lm.html;

  • ASCIIMathML: http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimath.html.

• Converting to Word:

  • TeX4ht: http://www.tug.org/tex4ht/;

  • LibreOffice: http://www.libreoffice.org/;

  • MathType: http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/.

• Converting from Word:

  • Word2TeX: http://www.chikrii.com/products/word2tex/;

  • Word-to-L^aT_eX: http://www.wordtolatex.com/;

  • GrindEq: http://www.grindeq.com/.

• To produce speech:

  • MathPlayer: http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/;

  • MathGenie: http://www.logicalsoft.net/Math.html, http://rskipper.myweb.usf.edu/TMVIProject.html.

• Used in attempts to produce various Braille formats:

  • Scientific NoteBook: http://www.mackichan.com/index.html?products/snb.html;

  • Duxbury: http://www.duxburysystems.com/dbt.asp;

  • ChattyInfty: http://www.sciaccess.net/en/ChattyInfty/;

  • Lambda: http://www.lambdaproject.org/;

  • L^aT_eX-access: http://latex-access.sourceforge.net/;

  • BrlTeX: http://brltex.sourceforge.net/;

  • LaTeXLex: http://mesarhameed.info/projects/latexlex.

• Used in attempts to improve accessibility of PowerPoint documents:

  • MicroSoft Word and PowerPoint;

  • LecShare: http://lecshare.com/;

  • PowerTalk: http://fullmeasure.co.uk/powertalk/.

• Used in attempts to produce visual interfaces to document parts:

  • FreeMind: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/;

  • FreePlane: http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/.

For evaluating the resources, in addition to some of the above, we used:

• A range of modern Internet browsers and PDF viewers;

• The Stix fonts: http://www.stixfonts.org/;

• Kindle and Sony e-book readers;

• JAWS: http://www.freedomscientific.com/jaws-hq.asp;

• TextHelp: http://www.texthelp.com/UK/our-products/readwrite;

• A text editor which JAWS could interact with — I used programmers notepad http://www.pnotepad.org/.

For producing proof of concept work rounds we used:

• Flex: http://flex.sourceforge.net/;

• C and Python.