[Athen] Math Content for PhD Student

Teresa Haven Teresa.Haven at nau.edu
Mon Aug 10 10:52:06 PDT 2015


Hi, Marcie. I had to check on the current feasibility of this method, but I've been told it is now working again. If you have access to MathType, create your text in Word and insert your math using MathType. Use MathType to appropriately save the file as HTML (consult MT's documentation for the correct steps and settings), then have your student install MathPlayer and read the document in Internet Explorer 11. Refer to Design Science's instructions on using Enterprise Mode in IE11 for proper support. http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/

I hope this helps,
Teresa

Teresa Haven, Ph.D.
Accessibility Analyst, Northern Arizona University



From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Dimac, Marcie
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 10:04 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network (athen-list at u.washington.edu)
Subject: [Athen] Math Content for PhD Student

Afternoon all,

I sent out something about a week ago and got no replies so I'd like to try again in hopes that someone out there can help us!

Situation: We have a doctoral candidate student, blind, JAWS user, who does not read Braille. The student is registered for a doctoral level quantitative statistics course and the book is available in PDF format but is about 50% equations and mathematical problems and 50% text content. We are trying to determine the best way to deliver the mathematical content to the student.
We have tried editing the math content in Scientific Notebook, but it then has to be exported to xhtml and we are finding that only JAWS 16 truly supports MathML (the student is on version 14).
We cannot Braille the figures or equations as this student does not read Braille.

Question: What is the best way to deliver the content to this student? We have spoken with the student and he is comfortable with us either properly formatting the current math content (Using SN or MathType) so he can listen to the content with JAWS or turning all mathematical content into textual content (i.e.[cid:image003.png at 01D0D35A.9984A9B0] would be written as "X sub one").

Does anyone have any recommendations/best practices for

1. A program to properly format mathematical content for JAWS

2. The concept of turning mathematical content into textual content

Any advice is welcomed.

Thanks, as always!

Marcie Anne Dimac, M.A. Ed.

Coordinator, Assistive Technology
Student Accessibility Services
DeWeese Health Center, Room 23
Kent, Ohio 44242

Email: mdimac at kent.edu<mailto:mdimac at kent.edu>

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