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From: Michael Ausbun
Date: Jun 3, 2019 8:45AM

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Hello All,
I am curious. Being blind and interacting with Math content =
with various assistive technologies, I recognize the problem this presents.=
What roll might Pearson's accessible equation editor play? Might the equat=
ion editor be modified in such a way to provide a robust output (if Pearson=
in general, Sam Dooley specifically, would be interested in expanding the =
functionality. Just a thought I have been thinking about over the last few =
days.
Respectfully,
Michael


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Isabel H wrote:
"the upshot of which sadly seems to be that there's no tried and trusted
means of presenting mathematical content in a way that reliably works for
screenreader or Braille users."

That's correct. There is no one single method of creating accessible math
that works seamlessly across all assistive technologies. Also, no one metho=
d
when we create the accessible content and move the math from an equation
editor into documents, websites, EPUBs, whatever.

It's a real mess for the entire community.

Someone needs to fix this!

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