In reply to Chris Smart (@smartguitar1).

@Chris: It was fascinating. I was presenting the work we have been doing on "talking scores", i.e. automatically generating a verbal description of a musical score as accessible text from an uploaded MusicXML file, to aid music learners who have lost their sight but cannot read braille music notation, as is often the case for those who lose their sight later in life. My fellow panelists were doing incredible work in the field of making maths equations (via MathML and other technologies) more accessible, and demonstrated some very impressive text-to-speech software for use with ePub. It's very encouraging to see these kinds of rich, non-text types of content becoming more accessible thanks to these advances in assistive technology.