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Re: how to detect images having math expressions

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Jun 4, 2008 2:00PM

Sean Keegan wrote:

> Asking for clarification - is it the addition of MathML to a Web page
> that is of little practical value (for accessibility purposes) or is
> it the addition of the MathML equivalent to an image when such image
> already has suitable alternate text?

Both, because there is so little to be gained in practice and so much
work to be done, and time is better spent in doing other things. But it
is outright wrong to add MathML _without_ first making sure that the
alternate text is adequate.

Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/