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accessibility

17 notes carry this tag — 8 claims, 3 observations, 2 questions, 4 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• T. V. Raman built AsTeR and Emacspeak as tools for himself first — his own account of who builds infrastructure nobody else thinks to build
  capture promoted 2026-10-29 · accessibility, blind-mathematicians, emacspeak, aster, assistive-technology
• Raman and his employer both frame AsTeR's origin as a fix for Raman's own unreadable LaTeX papers, not a market gap identified by sighted toolmakers
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-10-29 · accessibility, aster, t-v-raman, blind-mathematicians, self-built-infrastructure
• T. V. Raman built Emacspeak as a private fix for himself, with no plan to generalize it, and had a working version in about four hours
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-29 · accessibility, emacspeak, t-v-raman, assistive-technology, self-built-infrastructure
• Raman's own technical account: generic screen-readers of his era spoke a program's display, while Emacspeak was built to speak its data structures
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-29 · accessibility, emacspeak, t-v-raman, assistive-technology, mechanism
• Raman names being the sole user and tester of Emacspeak for twenty years as the cause of its fault-tolerant, 'bushy' architecture
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-29 · accessibility, emacspeak, t-v-raman, software-architecture, self-built-infrastructure
• The StereoMath/Griewank cosine-0.85 seed pairing is an embedding false friend — and neither obliteration-by-incorporation nor the Matthew Effect explains why
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-13 · embedding-false-friend, jingle-fallacy, obliteration-by-incorporation, matthew-effect, citation-lineage
• The StereoMath/Griewank seed pairing (cosine 0.85) is an embedding false friend — and not for the reason this vault's own OBI false-friend precedent would predict
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-11 · citation-lineage, obliteration-by-incorporation, matthew-effect, jingle-fallacy, embedding-false-friend
• StereoMath (2024) cites Raman's Emacspeak — never AsTeR — and only as generic sonification prior art, not for the pitch mapping
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-20 · accessibility, blind-mathematicians, sonification, auditory-display, math-notation
• StereoMath (2024) presents its pitch-for-vertical-position mapping as an uncited, novel contribution
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-20 · accessibility, blind-mathematicians, sonification, auditory-display, math-notation
• Does StereoMath (2024) cite AsTeR/Emacspeak for the pitch-encodes-vertical-position mapping, or present it as novel? (rediscovery vs. acknowledged lineage)
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-19 · accessibility, blind-mathematicians, sonification, auditory-display, math-notation
• T.V. Raman's AsTeR (1994) rendered mathematical structure as pitched, spatial audio — raising the voice for superscripts and receding nested subexpressions into audio 'distance'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · accessibility, blind-mathematicians, sonification, auditory-display, math-notation
• StereoMath (2024) maps an equation's on-screen position to stereo pan and pitch and replaces spoken parentheses with musical earcons
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · accessibility, blind-mathematicians, sonification, auditory-display, math-notation
• The accessibility layer for doing mathematics without sight has been built largely by blind researchers themselves, not by the proof-assistant, LaTeX, or notation toolmakers
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · accessibility, blind-mathematicians, sonification, assistive-technology, co-design
• Math sonification arrived at 'pitch encodes vertical position' at least twice, thirty years apart — AsTeR (1994) and StereoMath (2024), each built by musicians working on blindness
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · accessibility, sonification, auditory-display, computer-music, cross-time-bridge
• Does StereoMath (2024) cite AsTeR/Emacspeak for the pitch-encodes-vertical-position mapping, or present it as novel? (rediscovery vs. acknowledged lineage)
  question answered 2026-07-18 · verification, sonification, accessibility, computer-music, cross-time-bridge
• Verify verbatim: AsTeR's audio-formatting quotes (pitch for superscripts, nesting as audio 'distance') from Raman's 1994 thesis page node72
  question answered 2026-07-18 · verification, sonification, accessibility, blind-mathematicians, math-notation
• Math as sound: AsTeR (1994) and StereoMath (2024) both encode equation structure in pitch
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · accessibility, blind-mathematicians, sonification, auditory-display, computer-music