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From: Liko, Todd
Date: Aug 18, 2014 7:04AM

Hi Olaf.

I thought this was not fully supported yet and can this be used in PDF documents?

Todd.

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Olaf Drümmer
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 8:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] ALT text for equations

Hi Todd,

what about using MathML?

Olaf


On 18 Aug 2014, at 14:02, "Liko, Todd" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> I have researched this topic online and found older WebAIM threads. The information I have found thus far indicates there is not a lot of support for making equations accessible, short of writing it out in ALT text.
>
> I am curious how others are dealing with this, not only for HTML and in PDF documents as well.
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