[Athen] math speak for MAC

[Teresa Haven]

Hi, Karen.  We've been experimenting with that since most of our students taking math of course need to interact with it, and some of them are not Braille readers.  So far we haven't figured out a good interactive solution - while the mathML is dropped into Word with MathType, so far all our JAWS testers have said it does not interact appropriately with screen-reading technology until it is pushed to MathPage, which of course renders it non-editable.  We're still working on that problem and will let you know if we find a working solution...
Teresa

From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Sorensen
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:43 PM
To: athen-list at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Athen] math speak for MAC

Hi Wink and Teresa,
We too are finding that MathType w/MS Word 2010 for Windows works well to output MathML which a student can access with a PC using Internet Explorer w/the MathPlayer plug-in.

I don't know of an equivalent solution for the Mac unfortunately. But I have another question.

Can math in a Word document be made accessible, say if you have an online assignment you want the student to work on and turn in? Is our only option to making online math documents accessible, to make them into a MathML web pages?

I understand that PDFs with math cannot be made accessible. But can a MS Word document w/math equations be made accessible without turning it into a web page?

Thanks,
Karen

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Karen M. Sorensen
Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses
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Portland Community College
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