The Blind Pursuit of Science - How Assistive Technologies Can Help

Pursuing one’s passion for science is no easy feat for students who are visually impaired or blind. Very often, they face the problem of visualizing pictorial representations of data, complex mathematical formulae and completing laboratory coursework.

Read on to find out the limitations they face and what the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany has done to make course materials more accessible to their student community; this is an issue that software magnifiers and screen readers have yet to address adequately.

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