T. V. Raman

T. V. Raman (born 4 May 1965) is an Indian American computer scientist who specializes in accessibility research. His research interests are primarily in the areas of auditory user interfaces and structured electronic documents. He has worked on speech interaction and markup technologies in the context of the World Wide Web at Digital's Cambridge Research Lab (CRL), Adobe Systems and IBM Research. Raman has himself been partially sighted since birth, and blind since the age of 14. Raman became blind at the age of 14 due to glaucoma, being previously partially sighted write computer programs, and perform mathematics.

Raman attended the University of Pune with a BS in mathematics, IIT Bombay with an MS in mathematics, and Cornell University earning an MS in computer science and a PhD in applied mathematics under advisor David Gries. His PhD thesis titled "Audio System For Technical Readings (AsTeR)" Raman went on to apply the ideas on audio formatting introduced in AsTeR to the more general domain of computer interfaces Emacspeak. On 12 April 1999, Emacspeak became part of the Smithsonian's Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. In 2005 he began work at Google.

Work AsTeR – Audio System For Technical Readings Aural CSS – producing rich auditory presentations from Web content Emacspeak – the complete audio desktop XForms – Next Generation Web Forms XML Events – A reusable eventing syntax for XML XHTML+Voice – Enabling the multimodal Web via voice interaction RDC – Reusable Dialog Components AxsJAX – Access Enabling AJAX Google Accessible Search – for finding accessible Web content Thinking Of Mathematics – Thinking Of Mathematics—An Essay on Eyes-Free Computing Eyes-Free – Speech enabled Google Android applications. ChromeVox – Screen reader from Google Chrome and ChromeOS Chakshumati At 10 Eyes-Free Stem Education In India and Chakshumati: Profile Of T.V. Raman Inaugural Ceremony of T V Raman experiential Accessible Computer Science Lab Chennai on Jan 3 2025 at Karnavidya Foundation RR Tower Guindy, Chennai, India

Other interests His favorite hobby is recreational mathematics, especially those that involve an intuitive feel for mathematics.