ViewPoints 1123 6-8-11 Doing science with low vision

Viewers and Converters for Microsoft Office aplications can be found by going to the URL:
www.office.microsoft.com
and performing a search for the word "viewer" or "converter".
Viewers and converters for both MAC and Windows PCs can be downloaded.

Science books can be obtained from the following resources:

• Bookshare:
  www.bookshare.org
• National Library Service (NLS):
  www.nlsbard.loc.gov
• Learning Ally:
  www.learningally.org

Home page for the Intel® International Science and Engineering Fair® :
www.societyforscience.org/isef

Accessible software tools for performing symbolic math, numerical math, and other applications of interest to scientists can be found at:

• Maple:
  www.maplesoft.com
• Matlab:
  www.mathworks.com
• Mathematica:
  www.wolfram.com
• Maxima (free): (descendant of MIT’s Macsyma):
  http://maxima.sourceforge.net
• Program and script for performing symbolic math on the PacMate:
  www.pacmategear.com
  go to the "Custom scripts" link and look for "qdCAS Accessible"