[Athen] math speak for MAC

[Ken Petri]

Hi Karen,

More accessible than an HTML page would be a XML DTB document read with a
math capable DAISY reader, such as ReadHear. Though it's probably not ideal
for responding to questions, one thing ReadHear allows is annotated
bookmarks. So a student theoretically could read the test/document/book
using ReadHear and set bookmarks/notes for each question, using the note as
a place to respond to the question. The Save As Daisy plugin, when used in
Word with MathType installed, will output valid DAISY + MathML.

I'm not sure if this is any better than having an HTML form field as an
area for response, though.

As for screen reader capable math composition, I think most students at
higher levels will likely compose math in LaTeX. You might also look into
Chatty Infty ( http://www.inftyproject.org/en/software.html#ChattyInfty )

ken
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Teresa Haven <Teresa.Haven at asu.edu> wrote:


>  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****

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> *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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