Q:

Is there any Mathematica functionality enabling its use for the blind?

A colleague of mine has become blind as the result of a sudden medical misfortune. We want to help him to feel useful and active again. We, however, still cannot determine what can be done and to what extent, if anything.  He was a Mathematica user. To enable him to use it again, is there any Mathematica functionality enabling its use for the blind?

A:

I taught a blind student at our Uni a 1st year Maths module. We used his MacBook Air and he had a hardware device that rendered mac output as braille. We found that the key to communicating mathematics was a simplified form of LaTeX - which the student picked up very quickly. This, combined with Mathematica's LaTeX facility proved very successful.

