TALMO accessible math
- Date: 15 June 2023
- Time: 6:30 to 7:30pm (UK Time)
Summary
Jonathan Fine Last month I attended an excellent half-day workshop on Creating accessible online mathematics and statistics notes. The videos are now available. This TeX Hour will be a review of the workshop, based on the videos and other resources.
TALMO stands for Teaching And Learning Mathematics Online. It’s an organisation of teachers of maths and stats in UK universities. It was set up during the Covid-19 pandemic to share resources and avoid wasteful duplication. It continues to this day.
The TeX Hour
Most of the talk was a review of the speakers at the workshop, based on their home pages and similar resources. But first I gave a summary of workshop program, so that we could relate topics to speakers. I encourage you, before or after reading and viewing this page, to visit the TALMO page for the workshop and watch their the videos that interest you. That will strengthen the math and STEM access community.
In particular, I suggest if nothing else you watch the video (and read the slides) from Lilian Joy and students at York (see below for URLs).
Summary of TALMO workshop
Introduction
- Welcome: Jenny Hughes (Sheffield)
- The student perspective: Lilian Joy and students from York
- Where to start and minimum standards: Ben Watson and Jim Tyson (UCL)
Diagrams, figures and images
- Session introduction: Morgaine RIchard (Aberdeen)
- How to do good ALT test: Huw Alexander (textBOX)
- Accessible colour in figures: Josh Lim (Bath)
- Creating accessible STEM Diagrams: Volker Sorge (Birmingham)
Ways of creating accessible notes
- Session introduction: Peter Rowlett (Sheffield)
- A primer for RMarkdown: David Hodge (Glasgow)
- The Chirun system for accessible course notes: Christian Lawson-Perfect (Newcastle)
- Using Jupyter Notebooks and Jupyter Book: Alex Best (Sheffield)
Closing
- Discussion and summary: Jenny Hughes (Sheffield)
URLs
TALMO
TALMO: Lilian Joy and York students
Workshop speakers and session chairs
- Jenny Hughes: Digital Sheffield Blog
- Lilian Joy: Accessible Math at York
- Ben Watson, Digital Accessibility, UCL
- Ben Watson, Access Math and Coding
- Jim Tyson, Blog on access from LaTeX
- Morgiane Richard: Aberdeen
- Huw Alexander: textBOX
- Josh Lim: Bath
- Volker Sorge: Birmingham University
- Volker Sorge: home page
- Peter Rowlett: Sheffield
- David Hodge: Nottingham
- Christian Perfect: Newcastle