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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Aug 18, 2014 7:30AM

Hi Todd,

it will be officially and fully supported in the upcoming version 2 of PDF (expected for 2016, so admittedly a little bit of a wait for any current project).

Meanwhile it can be supported by simply using the MathML tags as custom tags in Tagged PDF. So far there have been hardly any assistive technologies supporting this, but I have heard that NVDA is working on support for MathML in current Tagged PDF.

I can share more info once I'm back from my vacation… (early September)

Olaf



On 18 Aug 2014, at 15:04, "Liko, Todd" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Olaf.
>
> I thought this was not fully supported yet and can this be used in PDF documents?
>
> Todd.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Hi Todd,
>
> what about using MathML?
>
> Olaf
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>
> On 18 Aug 2014, at 14:02, "Liko, Todd" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> I am curious how others are dealing with this, not only for HTML and in PDF documents as well.
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