[Athen] Mathtype question

Alexandra Slovik slovika at lanecc.edu
Thu Apr 2 15:24:53 PDT 2020


Hi all,

I've managed to get NVDA and other screen readers to play nice with math
that's first entered into Word using the equation editor then exported to
HTML. I use a free software program called Central Access Reader (by the
University of Washington). You simply drag in a Word file then export to
HTML. The screen readers will read out the alt text for the equations.

Best,
Lexi Slovik

On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 2:49 PM Russell Solowoniuk <solowoniukr at macewan.ca>
wrote:


> Hi Tamara,

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> I think the student probably does have Word. I’m not sure why they are

> converting to PDF, but having said that, I’m not able to get Jaws to read

> the equations in the Word document either. I’m trying to figure this out

> now.

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> Thanks,

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>

> Russell

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> *From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> *On

> Behalf Of *Tamara Mariotti

> *Sent:* Thursday, April 02, 2020 2:06 PM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <

> athen-list at u.washington.edu>

> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Mathtype question

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> Does the team member have access to Math type, and why convert it? Just

> asking – if the student does not have word, can it move to a google doc as

> easily? Or offer free office 365

> <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/office>. I know this

> sounds simple, but perhaps this can work? I would check it all though with

> JAWS or Fusion. I created this for students to access the free

> Zoomtext/Jaws/Fusion if it will help. Feel free to share this “How to”

> widely.

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> Tamara Mariotti

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> *From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> *On

> Behalf Of *Russell Solowoniuk

> *Sent:* Thursday, April 2, 2020 3:37 PM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <

> athen-list at u.washington.edu>

> *Subject:* [Athen] Mathtype question

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> Hi everyone,

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>

>

> We’ve been contacted by one of our eLearning team members. He is

> attempting to convert an instructor’s Word document to a PDF. The document

> is for a math course and has many math equations done using Mathtype. The

> problem is that the instructor didn’t just use Mathtype for the equations,

> but used it for all the content in the document, including text

> instructions.

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>

> The conversion to PDF made quite a mess of things. Is there a way to

> modify the Mathtype content in the Word document so that only the equations

> are rendered in Mathtype? The eLearning person doesn’t want to have to

> re-type all the content, if he can avoid it.

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> Thanks for any ideas.

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> Russell

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