[Athen] MathType and Screen Readers

[Janet Fukuda]

Hi,

I have a question for you. We are trying to create Word Documents using
MathType that are to be read by screen readers and we are facing a few
issues. The folks at WIRIS have said:

   1. The JAWS and NVDA screen readers both work to read math content in
   web pages (with equations in mathml), but JAWS doesn't read MathType
   equations in Word/PowerPoint. Only NVDA screen reader with
   MathPlayer/MathType will read MathType equations in Word/PowerPoint.
   2. Voiceover does not yet read the math content (MathType equations).
   Apple hasn't implemented the functionality for the reader to interpret them
   at this time. In the past, we contacted Apple regarding the need for this,
   but they don't have any immediate plans to integrate the feature. We don't
   have a way to get it working with Voiceover.

What has been your experience? Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Janet
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