The American Physical Society and ViewPlus Technologies have completed a proof-of-principle research project on the feasibility of publishing American Physical Society journals in a universally accessible DAISY format. They have shown definitively that it is possible to do so at…
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The Future is Near: Universally Usable Mainstream On-Line Publishing
John Gardner is blind and he is the founder of ViewPlus Technologies, a company whose mission is dedicated to information accessibility. He is also professor emeritus of physics. It was a very natural thing for him to collaborate with the…
Publishing Scientific Journals Accessible to the Vision Impaired
The long range goal of this research project is to develop authoring and publishing technology that can make electronic scientific journals automatically accessible to all people including those who are blind or have other print disabilities. The specific aim of…
VIEWPLUS MATH AND SCIENCE CURRICULA WITH FULLY ACCESSIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS
Math and science are difficult subjects for many K-12 children, and they are particularly difficult for students with visual or learning disabilities. ViewPlus is developing a range of accessible math and science curricula for the ViewPlus IVEO Learning System to…
ViewPlus – American Physical Society Collaboration: Making Scholarly Publications Accessible
ViewPlus has collaborated with the American Physical Society (APS) to demonstrate feasibility of publishing APS journals in an accessible DAISY form. APS presently uses an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) work flow, and it proved to be relatively easy to transform…
Scientific Journals Go DAISY
ViewPlus is collaborating with the American Physical Society (APS), DAISY, and several other companies and agencies to enable APS to publish its scientific journals in the highly accessible DAISY XML format. All text, math, and figures will be accessible to…
Making Journals Accessible to the Visually-Impaired – The Future is Near
Computers have revolutionized information accessibility for people who are blind or have other serious print disabilities. When information was distributed primarily on paper, it was necessary for a sighted human being to intervene in order to make that information available…
DotsPlus Braille for the Mainstream Teacher
DotsPlus Braille was developed to facilitate written scientific communication between mainstream people and blind braille readers. DotsPlus reads much like grade 1 braille except that many intuitive non-braille symbols are used – for punctuation and most math characters. Any braille…
Easy to Make accessible Scientific Graphics
A person with a severe print disability can read figures from scientific documents, homework assignments, test, lecture handouts etc. using “audio/touch”. A SVG copy of the figure is opened in the free ViewPlus IVEO Viewer and a tactile copy made…
From the CEO, blog 6 – Back in the Saddle
Hi Tiger Nation, It has been a crazy few weeks. Obviously, I fell off the train of the weekly blog posts. No excuses. I failed to make time to do what I really wanted to do. That is now in…