Math Support Finder with the DIAGRAM Center

PAC worked with Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center initiative to design and develop Math Support Finder, a searchable tool that helps students, educators, families, publishers, and accessibility professionals identify how digital mathematics can be accessed across platforms, technologies, formats, and accessibility features.

Project Description

PAC worked with Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center initiative to develop Math Support Finder, a search tool that helped users understand how to access and interact with digital mathematics across different platforms, technologies, and formats.

There are many approaches to making mathematics accessible, and the right solution often depends on a specific combination of factors. A student, teacher, publisher, content creator, parent, or access technology user may need to know whether a particular platform supports spoken math, braille output, MathML, magnification, keyboard interaction, or other accessibility features. Without clear information, it can be difficult to know which tools will actually support meaningful access to mathematical content.

Math Support Finder addressed that challenge by helping users identify the possibilities and limitations of accessible math on a given platform. For example, someone looking to read math in braille on an Apple product could use the tool to better understand what options were available, which accessibility features were supported, and what configuration or technology pathway might be needed.

PAC helped design and develop the tool so that it could grow through community feedback and verified test results. Rather than offering generic recommendations, Math Support Finder was built to reflect practical, real-world information about how accessible math solutions behave in use. The result was a clearer, more reliable way for students, educators, families, publishers, and accessibility professionals to make informed decisions about accessible mathematics.