[Athen] function signs in NVDA

[Stager, Catherine]

Hi Wink,
I think you want to suggest she adjusts the verbosity, as Steve infers so that “some”  is the selection. I believe to read ASCII math, you need ”most” so that the minus (hyphen) is read.

Best,
Cath


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Thanks Steve! I have already pointed my friend Sue to your link below. I keep your resource links bookmarked ;>)

I'll forward on the info about the edit vs presentation view + the toggle key. I suspect that may be it.

Thanks again!
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 1:50 PM Noble,Stephen L. <steve.noble at louisville.edu<mailto:steve.noble at louisville.edu>> wrote:
Make sure the reading is taking place in the Presentation view (F5)...not the slide edit view. Also, it the prof is trying to use plain text dash for a minus sign (that is, not embedding it in a MathType expression), then that is typically not voiced by NVDA unless you set it to read all punctuation.

There's a nice writeup of how to use MathType in PowerPoint so that it is accessible to screen readers:
https://docs.wiris.com/en/mathtype/mathtype_desktop/tips/tips_powerpoint#create_accessible_powerpoint_slides


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Try downloading the Access8 Math add on through NVDA - that has built in code to read out many math symbols.

Here is the link:
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 12:23 PM Andrea L. Dietrich <adietrich at cornell.edu<mailto:adietrich at cornell.edu>> wrote:

Maybe try a different voice? I’ve noticed differences in various text-to-speech programs I’ve tried where different voices will read some things differently.



-Andi :)



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Hi all,



I was contacted by a math colleague of mine from AZ about a project she's working on creating a PPT slide deck for math using NVDA.



She's set up with MathType & MathPlayer, but has reported a problem with NVDA not recognizing simple function symbols such as "+" and "-" being read correctly in NVDA.



I could not easily find my notes on this and wondered if anyone out there has a suggestion about a simple fix for this? A setting?



Any info would be helpful for me to pass along to her



Thanks in advance.

Wink Harner

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