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Re: screen readers and notation for science

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From: Sarah Jevnikar
Date: Oct 30, 2015 8:45AM

Hi there,
MathML or LaTeX seems the best idea here. JAWS and NVDA are more able to read MathML now (using The MathPlayer plugin from Design Science (for NVDA) or MathJax (for JAWS). LaTeX can be read by any screen reader, but is source so isn't as nice to read (one-half is frac{1}{2} for instance)

For reference, here's a page on MathML and LaTeX: http://www.access2science.com/indexMathLanguages.html