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From: Donald Evans
Date: Nov 17, 2010 11:51AM

I've run into a similiar situation using Jaws 11 and an online algebra
course. Here are a few changes I have made to make it more readable. You
can change or set the mapping of symbols to words by using:

JAWS > Utilities > Dictionary Manager > Add

- Actual Word = * Replacement word = times
- Actual Word = - Replacement word = minus
- Actual Word = ≠ Replacement word = not equal to. (requires a UTF-8
content type declaration on page: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >
- Actual Word = Replacement Word = divided by


2010/11/17 Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson < <EMAIL REMOVED> >

> I know there are mapping files, between symbols and spoken words, in
> most screen readers.
> I can't recall specifically what the Jaws one is called, or if it is
> editable, I believe it is, the braille mapping one has been (at least
> until v12.0).
> I would recommend contacting FS specifically and have them confirm
> what the mapping is in this file for Jaws 9, and if this has been
> corrected in subsequent versions of Jaws.
>
> Thanks
> -Birkir
>
>
> On 11/17/10, Terrill Bennett < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > Would this be that which ye seek:
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/Math/characters/mathml/mmlalias.html
> > http://www.w3.org/Math/characters/mathml/mmlextra.html
> >
> > -- tb --
> >
> > At 01:20 PM 11/17/2010, you wrote:
> >>Steve,
> >>Even with MathML the assistive technologies are going to need to
> >>know what Unicode characters to support. I have no idea if there is
> >>a listing of important Unicode characters and their proper names,
> >>but I imagine that a listing for Math (and music, and other
> >>disciplines) would be helpful - I wonder if that exists.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>AWK
> >>
> >>Andrew Kirkpatrick
> >>Group Product Manager, Accessibility
> >>Adobe Systems
> >>
> >> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> >>http://twitter.com/awkawk
> >>http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility
> >>
> >>
> >>