Although this symposium is primarily focused upon access technology for data acquisition in the laboratory/classroom, there is also the surprisingly less accessible �virtual laboratory.� I am a blind student in the physical chemistry department at University of Florida and I have found it to be quiet difficult to do many computational chemistry tasks independently.  I rely heavily on readers and have had to come up with various creative ways for me to understand visual materials.  For example when looking at images of ligands bound to the active site of a protein I have readers trace the structure on the back of my hand.  When using VMD I dictate exactly the command I want typed in and ask exact questions of how the structure looks.  Voiceover type technology can aid to an extent but there is still a demonstrable need for the development of access technologies aimed at blind computational chemists.

Access technologies for blind computational chemsists?

247th National Meeting (2014)

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