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Re: Math and the most accessible way to mark it up

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From: Jim Allan
Date: Sep 12, 2018 3:37PM

Screen readers vary in their ability to read special symbols. See this
thread on webaim
https://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?thread=6265

JAWS has a Dictionary Manager that you may be able to add special symbols
NVDA has something similar
https://www.nvaccess.org/files/nvda/documentation/userGuide.html#SpeechDictionaries

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 4:07 PM Isabel Holdsworth < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm a bit late to the math party, but we're struggling to figure out
> the best way to mark up math operations like fractions, indices, Greek
> letters, and even the Minus sign.
>
> We have the Wiris MathML editor plugged into one of our text editors,
> and it seems to do a really good job of encoding raw characters into
> MathML. For the most part it works well with JAWS, but NVDA misses
> some vital information, such as the "divided by" between the numerator
> and denominator of a fraction, or the "to the power of" between a
> number and its index. And VoiceOver isn't speaking anything at all for
> some reason, although it's apparently supposed to work with "simple"
> math expressions.
>
> Is there a newer and/or more robust way to express math that works
> well with more access technologies than MathML seems to?
>
> As always, I'd really appreciate your thoughts on this. Accessibility
> is becoming a higher priority in the company I work for, and I want us
> to get it right first time wherever possible.
>
> Cheers, Isabel
> > > > >


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