DDA update - Tactile Graphics for Blind Students

If you have blind or visually impaired students at your institution studying Maths, Stats & OR you will know how much information presented in graphical form they may miss out on – in textbooks and lecturers’ overheads and lecture notes; logarithmic diagrams, graphs, and charts of all kinds: bar, column, pie, flow… the list is almost endless since Maths, Stats and OR are all subjects which include a large amount of graphics. The NCTD is a non-profit organisation, sited by HEFCE at the University of Hertfordshire in 1999 and is headed by Dr Sarah Morley Wilkins and Dave Gunn, both highly regarded in the field. The NCTD designs and produces tactile diagrams, maps and pictures and provides a variety of training and consultancy services to improve university expertise in supporting blind and visually impaired students. With other funding the NCTD also supports blind individuals, businesses and organisations with tactile graphics and related services…For more info goto: http://www.nctd.org.uk/