Where Are We in Education and Visual Impairment?

Science and education are fundamental vehicles for producing and transmitting knowledge, but both areas have a significant bias that limits their potential and reach. No one considers how to integrate people with different abilities in the designs for these areas of knowledge.

Wanda Díaz-Merced, a renowned astronomer and international speaker, who will be present at the next webinar of The Observatory of Educational Innovation about the digital inclusion of visually impaired people in science, revealed a surprising fact: She speaks about how far we are from accessibility in our production and transmission of knowledge.

“There are only four astronomers with visual impairment in the world,” she explained to Nature. Díaz-Merced is the creator of sonification, a method that converts large sets of data to audible sound.

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