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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Nov 17, 2010 11:33AM

I'll answer my own question. There are lots of tables of symbols (e.g. http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/isoamsr.html). I guess my question is whether there is a prioritized listing - I assume "almost equal to" being more important than "geometrically equal to" (I'm not doing much geometry), but I imagine that most every one is important to some discipline. It's hard to imagine that all of these and other symbols will be supported widely anytime soon. There must be a better way than each assistive technology or TTS voice needing to recognize these...

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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