[Athen] JAWS access to equation editor

[John Gardner]

Howard, the MS equation editor and its big brother MathType are not 
accessible.  There are two straightforward ways to access the math 
that has been written using either of these however.  To access it 
you'll need MathType and can either convert the equations to a Tiger 
environment and emboss as DotsPlus or export as math page with the 
MathML option selected in MathType.  The resulting XML page can be 
displayed in Internet Explorer with the free MathPlayer plug-in from 
Design Science http://dessci.com.  For IE 6 you need to change the 
XML extension to XHTML to make it display right.  Then one can read 
the equations as words using any current screen reader.

Other export options are coming.  Unfortunately MathType itself isn't 
likely to get more accessible for some time.

Hope this helps.
John


At 11:00 AM 10/9/2006, you wrote:

>Does anyone know if there is a way to convert or make MS equation 

>editor object accessible to JAWS or another screen reader?

>

>Thanks,

>Howard

>

>Howard Kramer

>Assistive Technology Lab Coordinator

>AT Conference Coordinator

>Disability Services

>CU-Boulder, 107 UCB

>Boulder, Co  80309

>303-492-8672

>

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John A. Gardner
Professor and Director, Science Access Project
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