[Athen] JAWS with IE 9 and MathPlayer

Schwarte, David M. schwarte at purdue.edu
Wed Sep 25 13:36:32 PDT 2013


Hello Teresa,

I have recently created a small test e-text using MathType 6.9, Word 2010, DAISy Translator, and MathDAISy 1.0. I was successfully able to read it with ReadHere on a computer that was using Internet Explorer 9 and MathPlayer 3.0. I was also able to read the same file on a computer with gh Player 2.2 and MathPlayer 2.0. Frankly, I don't have good feelings about this working consistently. A few weeks ago I had trouble getting the computer with MathPlayer 3.0 to read any math at all. I tried to uninstall MathPlayer 3.0 and reinstall MathPlayer 2.0. After the uninstall I discovered that Design Science does not have earlier versions of MathPlayer available for download. When I reinstalled MathPlayer 3.0 ReadHere started reading math. I was even able to use JAWS and Internet Explorer to read pages with MathML. The pages were created with an earlier version of MathType, 6.7, I think. My point being that I uninstalled MathPlayer and then reinstalled the exact same file, I did not bother re-downloading it. The second installation worked while the first one did not. I don't know why, but I have concerns with others, especially, students being able to get this to work consistently.

David Schwarte



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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 Teresa Haven
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 12:32 PM
To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'
Subject: RE: [Athen] JAWS with IE 9 and MathPlayer

I witnessed the same things, Julie, but once we had upgraded to the newer versions we found we couldn't downgrade again, which has left us stuck with no good solutions for our students.

Bouncing off this discussion a little, has anyone tried using MathDAISY to produce a math-enabled DTB? What have been the results? And what playback equipment (ReadHear, EasyReader) has been tested with the output? I'm thinking that if some of the problems are stemming from flaws in the more recent versions of MathType, then it won't really matter if the end user is accessing a DTB or a MathPage, the same types of problems will occur. Any confirmation or evidence of this?
Thanks,
Teresa

Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D.
Supervisor, Alternative Format Services
Disability Resource Center
Arizona State University



-----Original Message-----
From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Julie Balassa
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 7:21 PM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: RE: [Athen] JAWS with IE 9 and MathPlayer

Sean, I had to downgrade to MathType 6.7 and MathPlayer 2.2. Publishing to a mathpage using MathType 6.8 and 6.9 produced all kinds of missing math, even though it was all there in Word, and the consistent error message that the webpage is not responding and the option to recover the web page, which did nothing. It's true I'm using Word 2007 as it's more compatible with some alt format production processes but I think the issue is really with MathType versions newer than 6.7. I've just been having a discussion with Pearson about a math e-book they say is accessible but Jaws does not read several symbols. They argue that it's because I'm using MathPlayer 2.2 with IE 9 instead of v.3 as v.2 was supposedly made for IE 8 and earlier but I know that's not the issue. I think the issue is that DESSCI produces products they have not really tested with Jaws and to make matters worse, you have to argue with them to prove that the newer products don't work. Once you manage to convince them, they tell you you're the only one who has this issue and promise to send it to their programmers and you never hear another thing. Try creating the documents with MathType 6.7 and reading them with Jaws and Mathplayer 2.2 and I'll be surprised if your issues are not resolved.

By the way, I'm on leave from Valencia till the end of November and submit these comments as an alt media specialist, not as a rep of Valencia College.
jkb

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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 Sean Keegan
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 6:28 PM
To: Alternate Media; Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: [Athen] JAWS with IE 9 and MathPlayer

Hello all,

I am curious if anyone else has been having the following issues with JAWS and Internet Explorer+MathPlayer: When attempting to view an HTML document that contains math on the local computer, JAWS will only read the address bar and any open tabs. Further, when attempting to get into the main browser window, IE throws a notification saying that "The webpage is not responding" and then provides a button to "Recover webpage."

Pressing the Recover Webpage button or trying to refresh the document do nothing but reload the webpage. Once this happens, we get a few seconds of functionality before the error notification happens again.

We are running JAWS 13 and JAWS 14 on two different machines with IE 9 and MathPlayer 3.0. The documents were created in both MathType 6.8 and 6.9 using the Publish to MathPage function. We are using the IE behavior export option.

Has anyone else encountered these issues with JAWS, IE 9, and MathPlayer?

Take care,
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