This page archives past NCAM projects. While the information remains relevant, some resources referenced are no longer available, so links to them have been removed.
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Resources for Describing STEM Images
General
American Printing House for the Blind’s Accessible Tests Department offers guidelines and other publications.
NCAM’s Design Guidelines for Electronic Publications, Multimedia and the Web.
The National Center for Blind Youth in Science has a portal for STEM resources.
TEST ACCESS: Guidelines for Computer Administered Testing.
For digital textbooks that include video clips, the Description Key for Educational Media offers guidelines for describing video.
Charts and Graphs
Chart Explainer automatically generates textual summaries of charts and tables.
Mathtrax is a graph describer developed by NASA.
Math
MathType by Design Science converts math written in Word into MathML.
MathPlayer by Design Science reads MathML in spoken English.
MathSpeak Initiative by gh reads MathML in spoken Nemeth code.
Accessiblemath.org provides accessible math resources and links.
InftyReader is an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application that recognizes and translates math images (BMP, GIF, PDF, PNG and TIFF) into LaTeX, MathML and Word 2007 XML files automatically.
ChattyInfty is a math editor with voice output.
The Nemeth Braille Code For Mathematics and Science
Handbook of Spoken Mathematics: Larry’s Speakeasy
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Disabilities Services
P.O. Box 808, L-716
Livermore, CA 94551
Tactile Graphics
Perkins School for the Blind maintains a list of tactile graphic resources.
Tactile Graphics Website provides a planning sheet and a decision tree for creating tactile graphics.
DTB Standards
DAISY Consortium (Digital Information Access SYstem Consortium)
DAISY.org/tools maintains extensive lists of DTB readers and publishing software.
NIMAS Resources
National Instructional Materials Access Center
NIMAS Development & Technical Assistance Centers
Center for Applied Special Technology: CAST
Guidelines and other publications
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