[Athen] Reading MathJax with JAWS

[kerscher at montana.com]

Hello,

 

I am assuming the mathematics is in MathML, which is great. MathJax is used by many websites for presentation of the math. The MathJax menu for a screen reader user is not useful, from my experience.

 

At CSUN, the presentation, “What grade did your screen reader get in arithmetic” demonstrated most of the screen readers exploring MathML. The best was NVDA with the MathCAT add-in. Jaws had serious issues, and the folks at Jaws know about it. It seems they will be moving to MathCAT as well, but we do not know when.

 

So for now, Just use Jaws in the math reading mode. If there is an expression such as the square root of 4+5 Jaws will not indicate if the 5 is under the root. The student will have trouble with these kinds of things.

 

Best

George

 

 

From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Mary J Ziegler
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2023 9:50 AM
To: Access Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Athen] Reading MathJax with JAWS

 

Dear Colleagues,


I’m trying to locate a user guide for JAWS users to understand how to best navigate and read math equations presented on a webpage with MathJax.  

 

I have found a lot of detail on how to author math in MathJax – but am trying to help a student read the equations already authored and presented in MathJax.

JAWS has the MathViewer that does a good job of reading math, but my questions are
  *   what is the best way to configure/change any MathJax settings to render the math to play as happily as possible with JAWS?
  *   What browser reads the math best?
  *   Other suggestions?


Thanks!
Mary

 

Mary J. Ziegler (she/her)

Program Manager for Online Learning Accessibility

Online Worldwide Learning Services (OWLS) 

Email: maryz at mit.edu <mailto:maryz at mit.edu> 

Phone: 617-258-9328

 

 

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