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From: Aaron Cannon
Date: Oct 30, 2015 12:02PM

Whether or not to use LaTex of course depends on a lot of things, but
I personally feel that all things being equal, LaTex is preferable if
the user will ever be expected to write what they're reading. MathML
is great for reading, but pretty terrible for writing. As far as I
know, almost no one writes MathML by hand, but plenty of people write
LaTex by hand.

Ultimately, however, it just depends on your goals. And with MathJax,
you should be able to offer both formats, and let the user decide.

Aaron

On 10/30/15, Sarah Jevnikar < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
>
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