Physics lecture notes include a great deal of mathematics. When two blind students enrolled in our physics course we needed to provide a complete set of undergraduate physics notes in Braille. Although commercially available software can produce mathematical Braille it requires an expert user to edit and produce readable Braille. The automatic translation features work well for converting literary text to Braille but were not reliable for any mathematics beyond the simplest school level equations.
We investigated several ways to produce mathematical Braille from LaTeX files and chose to use the Duxbury Braille Translator (DBT) [1]. Although we found a way to produce Braille lecture notes the system is far from reliable and improved software is required.
