Tactile Inclusion Project
That’s why we create math graphics for visually impaired and blind students: From first grade to senior school.
The European Union supports the creation of audio-tactile graphics with “Erasmus+” and co-finances the Tactile Inclusion Project.
The most important 80-100 graphics per school year are reduced to their core messages, translated into a haptic form and provided with audio explanations.
1250 math graphics will be available to blind and visually impaired pupils, teachers and parents via the ProBlind association.
The graphics are selected and filled with content by math teachers from the Michael Reitter School for the Blind in Linz and the ZSIP Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Krakow. The company Inventivio supports the creation of the audio-tactile graphics.
The project in figures
Goal:
Math lessons must become even more inclusive. From the first grade to senior school, the most important graphics should also be available in an audio-tactile form.
Schools:
This is made possible by the great commitment of our partner schools for the blind in Linz and Krakow. They select the graphics and provide them with explanations.
Graphics:
This is the number of graphics to be made available to students. And that’s not all: all graphics can then be automatically translated into over 20 other languages in the “Share” database.
We are working on it:
More math graphics
for the blind and visually impaired.
This is how the graphics are created:
- Our TIP schools select graphics for sighted people.
- Text explanations are provided for each graphic.
- Graphic designers convert each graphic for the blind.
- All graphics are then tested in the schools.
Each graphic will be available free of
charge in 2025 at share.problind.org.
Grade 1 to 13:
Algebra, geometry and much more.
The following gallery provides an insight into the audio-tactile graphics collection,
which will be made available free of charge in 2025.
We hope that the Tactile Inclusion project will use the example of mathematics to encourage the creation of audio-tactile graphics for other subjects as well.
Outlook for 2025
Finalization of the graphics
By the summer of 2025, all graphics should
be created and tested so that they can then be made available to pupils, parents and teachers free of charge.
Reproduction and translation
We would then like to ensure that the graphics collection is also available in other languages. All graphics should be translated and be available internationally.
Discover more audio-tactile
graphics in the ProBlind database.
