Yes! I found out from someone else a great way to present syntax diagrams line by 
line instead of using tree diagrams, e.g.

'the men in this family always eat the donuts'

S > NP (the men in this family), VP (always eat the donuts)
NP > Det (the), N (men), PP
PP > P (in), Det (the), N (town)
VP > Adv (always), V (eat), NP
NP > Det (the), N (donuts)

If you present it just as an alternative method, not flag it up as something that's 
specifically there for blind people, then it doesn't even make anyone feel awkward. 
In fact I found many sighted students preferring this method!

Meanwhile for IPA just say they can swap out symbols for just specifying 
place-voice-manner, or back/close etc for vowels. 'Voiced bilabial plosive', etc. 
That can actually help thinking through voice-place-manner!

Dave

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On 29/09/2016 15:50, Scott Maggie wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> Does anyone know of any resources for presenting linguistic material (e.g. IPA,
> syntactic bracketing, CA transcription) to blind or visually-impaired undergraduate
> students? Or any resources, software, etc. that might be adapted for this purpose?
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> Many thanks!
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