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From: Mike Warner
Date: Mon, Nov 04 2024 4:41PM
Subject: JAWS and math issues (again)
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Hi everyone.

on the Freedom Scientific math demo page (
https://support.freedomscientific.com/content/html/jawshq/MathML-Samples.html),
all versions of JAWS that I tested announced the math perfectly, but the
text output is just the letter X, no matter what the math is. I submitted
a ticket to Freedom Scientific, but haven't heard back. Does anyone have a
solution for this? As far as I can tell, there's no JAWS setting for math
or mathml, but I could have missed it. The issue is present regardless of
whether the page uses MathJax and whichever MathJax version is used. I
even downloaded JAWS 2025 for a fresh download and experienced the same
issue.

The Freedom Scientific math demo page again for easy reference:
https://support.freedomscientific.com/content/html/jawshq/MathML-Samples.html
The Freedom Scientific page with math and mathjax to see whether the issue
persists with MathJax: https://www.freedomscientific.com/SurfsUp/MathML.htm

Thanks,
Mike

Mike Warner
Director of IT Services
MindEdge Learning

From: Mike Warner
Date: Thu, Nov 14 2024 1:18PM
Subject: Re: JAWS and math issues (again)
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update: I spent some time with Freedom Scientific tech support yesterday
and the text viewer output of just X is the expected behavior. They
suggested that I submit a feature request to address that, which I did.
The Braille output has the correct text, however.

Mike
Mike Warner
Director of IT Services
MindEdge Learning


On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 3:41 PM Mike Warner < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> Hi everyone.
>
> on the Freedom Scientific math demo page (
> https://support.freedomscientific.com/content/html/jawshq/MathML-Samples.html),
> all versions of JAWS that I tested announced the math perfectly, but the
> text output is just the letter X, no matter what the math is. I submitted
> a ticket to Freedom Scientific, but haven't heard back. Does anyone have a
> solution for this? As far as I can tell, there's no JAWS setting for math
> or mathml, but I could have missed it. The issue is present regardless of
> whether the page uses MathJax and whichever MathJax version is used. I
> even downloaded JAWS 2025 for a fresh download and experienced the same
> issue.
>
> The Freedom Scientific math demo page again for easy reference:
> https://support.freedomscientific.com/content/html/jawshq/MathML-Samples.html
> The Freedom Scientific page with math and mathjax to see whether the issue
> persists with MathJax:
> https://www.freedomscientific.com/SurfsUp/MathML.htm
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> Mike Warner
> Director of IT Services
> MindEdge Learning
>

From: David Farough
Date: Thu, Nov 14 2024 1:27PM
Subject: Re: JAWS and math issues (again)
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