Automatic translation for Chinese mathematical Braille code

Abstract

Mathematics accessibility for the blind attracts more and more attention in recent years. It aims to make mathematical documents and information accessible to the blind via computer and Internet. Several projects have made considerable progress in meeting the challenges in mathematics accessibility. One of the remaining challenges is the translation between mathematical formats used by sighted individuals and mathematical Braille codes used by blind individuals. We concentrate on the automatic translation of Chinese mathematical Braille code and develop an automatic translation middleware to implement the inter-translation between Chinese mathematical Braille code and any format of MathML, LaTex and OpenMath using XSLT stylesheets. The automatic translation middleware has higher flexibility, scalability and portability, easy to transplant, modify and upgrade.