[Athen] LaTeX to PDF

[Brian Richwine]

gh LLC claims their Premium version of ReadHear will read (speak) epub
documents with MathML in them. Does anyone have experience supporting
students with the ReadHear product?

Thanks,
  Brian


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Sean Keegan <skeegan at stanford.edu> wrote:


> > Is there a solution for accessing mathML in PDFs? I didn't think this

> was possible. I thought the only accessible forms of mathML

> >  were in Web pages and certain Daisy and EPUB readers.

>

> Right now, the specification for MathML in PDF is not formally

> established. The ISO 32000-2 specification, which is being worked on, is

> expected to address MathML as a functional component of the PDF

> specification:

>

> http://www.aiim.org/Research-and-Publications/standards/committees/PDFUA/Technical-Implementation-Guide#Section7

>

> That being said, this only resolves the issue for the PDF file and does

> not speak to support by assistive computer technologies. So, you could have

> a PDF document that conforms to the specification and yet still not be

> "accessible" to assistive technologies.

>

> At this time, DAISY+MathML documents can be read with a few conforming

> DAISY readers and there is also some support for screen-readers when

> reading MathML on Web pages using the MathPlayer plug-in for IE. While ePub

> 3 has included MathML in the spec, I am not aware of any current assistive

> technologies that will read/parse the math in an ePub publication. There is

> also still limited support for MathML rendering in current ePub readers:

> http://www.mathjax.org/resources/epub-readers/

>

> Take care,

> Sean

>

> Sean Keegan

> Associate Director, Assistive Technology

> Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University

>

>

>

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