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From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Jun 18, 2019 9:44AM

This is certainly a issue of significant trouble where I work also. There is not only the issue of being able to represent the math as speech, regional differences in how to best represent equations and parts of equations make the translation of Math to speech more difficult than just words. At least when MATHML gets represented as Braille there are only two ways to represent it in the US.
Also, the most used screen readers on a couple different systems will not consistently work with all MathML. Sometimes this can be adjusted by changing a configuration how complex information is represented, but in other cases a Math expression that works fine on one system will be ignored on another. I have also run into a situation where operators when read multiple times by read by character will output a different operator rendering the comprehension of the equation impossible.


> On Jun 3, 2019, at 10:45 AM, Michael Ausbun < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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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 equation 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."
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> That's correct. There is no one single method of creating accessible math
> that works seamlessly across all assistive technologies. Also, no one method
> when we create the accessible content and move the math from an equation
> editor into documents, websites, EPUBs, whatever.
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> It's a real mess for the entire community.
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> Someone needs to fix this!
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