[Athen] MathML

[Wink Harner]

Have any of you tried the Read Write Gold 9.0 with Math Type for 
conversion to MATHML? Our preliminary experiments are pretty good so far.

Wink



Ron Stewart wrote:

>

> Thanks Tom it seems that it all still has a way to go.  I will keep 

> collecting information and hopefully the process will continue to move 

> forward.

>

> Ron

>

>  

>

> *From:* athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] 

> *On Behalf Of *Tom Whalen

> *Sent:* Monday, June 08, 2009 9:48 AM

> *To:* athen at athenpro.org

> *Subject:* [Athen] MathML

>

>  

>

> I wanted to note that my experience with MathType was less than 

> favorable, although I was trying to create nemeth, as opposed to audio 

> Math. Scientific Notebook did a far superior job, as MsthType rendered 

> many errors in producing problem sets for a developmental Algebra 

> class. I contacted the folks at Duxbury and they agreed that there 

> were still some bugs in the transition from MathType to nemeth.

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> Message: 1

> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:58:13 -0400

> From: "Ron Stewart" <ron at ahead.org>

> Subject: Re: [Athen] MathML

> To: "'Access Technology Higher Education Network'"

> <athen at athenpro.org>

> Cc: 'John Paul Harris' <John.P.Harris at Colorado.EDU>

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> One more comment on this, I am moving totally away from Scientific 

> Notebook

> and entirely to MathType and Infty.  The feedback I have been getting 

> in the

> last few months is that SN does not give a full enough symbol set.  I 

> would

> like to hear from other perspectives on this.

>

>

>

> Ron

>

>

>

> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

> Behalf Of Catherine M. Stager Kilcommons

> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 6:29 PM

> To: athen at athenpro.org

> Cc: John Paul Harris

> Subject: [Athen] mathml

>

>

>

> I had to play with this quite a bit this year-  we were not  getting very

> good results. We were creating the LATex with Scientific Notebook, then

> ended putting it into Nemeth despite our student's preference, because she

> was not able to get JAWS to read the MathML we created this way. The 

> MathML

> rendered correctly visually but did not read right with MathPlayer or with

> Mozilla (Opera still has some major rendering bugs - errors - evidently).

>

>

>

> However, I was able to get both Read and Write and JAWS to read the the

> MathML at http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/ 

> <http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/%7Edistler/blog/>

>

>

>

> Using the itex subset of LaTex then using itextomml, you can get good

> MathML. The rendering in Mozilla becomes JAWS friendly at that point

> (Firefox 3.0).  From the above listed page.

>

> ---SNIP----

>

> "Posts with this logo use MathML. To see the equations, you either need

> Mozilla or a MathML plugin for IE/Win. You will also need to install some

> fonts.

>

> The posts were authored in itex (an extension of WebTeX) using the 

> itexToMML

> Text Filter plugin for MovableType (the README file). "

>

>

>

> Hope there is other good news out there on this front!

>

>

>

> Best,

>

> Cath

>

>

>

> ----

>

> Cath Stager-Kilcommons

>

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> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:31:44 -0700

> From: "Wink Harner" <wink.harner at mcmail.maricopa.edu>

> Subject: [Athen] online readiness surveys

> To: "ATHEN" <athen at athenpro.org>, DSSHE-L at LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU

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> Hi all ATHENites and DSSHEs,

>

> Have any of you run across or developed an online readiness survey for 

> your

> students with disabilities to take in advance of their signing up for 

> online

> classes? Can you recommend questions to ask? I'm working on a research 

> project

> for our CTL (center for teaching & learning) to add info. for the faculty

> from a student readiness perspective.

>

> Any surveys or info you can provide is greatly appreciated! Thanks in 

> advance

> for your collective wisdom.

>

> Blessings in abundance,

>

> Wink

> Ms. Wink Harner

> Manager

> Disability Resources & Services

> Mesa Community College

> Mesa AZ

> 480-461-7447

> wink.harner at mcmail.maricopa.edu

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> Message: 3

> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:49:19 +1000

> From: Paul Harpur <p.harpur at qut.edu.au>

> Subject: Re: [Athen] online readiness surveys

> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen at athenpro.org>,

> "DSSHE-L at LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU" <DSSHE-L at LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU>

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> Gday Wink,

>

> I?m totally blind so from a print disability perspective I found 

> important questions were:

>

> Is there a prescribed textbook and are the readings available 

> electronically;

> If they are color blind they should make sure they tell the professor 

> so they can avoid putting green and reed on power points;

> If the professor is referring to power points ask the professor to 

> either make the power points available before class or make sure they 

> read out the content in the class.

>

> I?m now in academia but some problems I find other students have are:

> Not all rooms have sufficient power sockets for every laptop so I used 

> to carry a power board;

> Make sure the student can access the website using their adaptive 

> technology.  If they are not up to speed with that they are in major 

> problems.  There are people who can provide training on adaptive 

> technology and it is great to get trained.

> Leave sufficient time to get mobilized around campus.

>

> I attach a short manual I developed for law students at my university,

>

> Paul.

>

>

>

> ________________________________________

> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On 

> Behalf Of Wink Harner [wink.harner at mcmail.maricopa.edu]

> Sent: Saturday, 6 June 2009 11:31 AM

> To: ATHEN; DSSHE-L at LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU

> Subject: [Athen] online readiness surveys

>

> Hi all ATHENites and DSSHEs,

>

> Have any of you run across or developed an online readiness survey for 

> your

> students with disabilities to take in advance of their signing up for 

> online

> classes? Can you recommend questions to ask? I'm working on a research 

> project

> for our CTL (center for teaching & learning) to add info. for the faculty

> from a student readiness perspective.

>

> Any surveys or info you can provide is greatly appreciated! Thanks in 

> advance

> for your collective wisdom.

>

> Blessings in abundance,

>

> Wink

> Ms. Wink Harner

> Manager

> Disability Resources & Services

> Mesa Community College

> Mesa AZ

> 480-461-7447

> wink.harner at mcmail.maricopa.edu

>

>

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