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of Contents John A. Gardner, Oregon State University, Oregon
State University, Winona State University, St. Mary's
University, Science, Engineering, and Math are particularly
difficult subjects for people with print disabilities, largely
because its literature makes heavy use of special symbols (e.g.
Greek letters, symbols with enhancements such as an overbar or
arrow above), formatting (e.g. symbols in sub or superscript
positions, fraction layout, matrices), and graphically-displayed
information (e.g. flow charts, diagrams, graphs). The Science
Access Project of Oregon State University has developed
technologies giving usable access to such information, and
several universities began using three of these, the Tiger
tactile graphics embosser, the Accessible Graphing Calculator,
and the WinTriangle scientific word processor, in 2001. This
panel will describe their experience in how these technologies
reduce or remove the communication barrier for