Hi Karen,<div><br></div><div>More accessible than an HTML page would be a XML DTB document read with a math capable DAISY reader, such as ReadHear. Though it's probably not ideal for responding to questions, one thing ReadHear allows is annotated bookmarks. So a student theoretically could read the test/document/book using ReadHear and set bookmarks/notes for each question, using the note as a place to respond to the question. The Save As Daisy plugin, when used in Word with MathType installed, will output valid DAISY + MathML.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm not sure if this is any better than having an HTML form field as an area for response, though.</div><div><br></div><div>As for screen reader capable math composition, I think most students at higher levels will likely compose math in LaTeX. You might also look into Chatty Infty (
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Teresa Haven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Teresa.Haven@asu.edu">Teresa.Haven@asu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi, Karen. We’ve been experimenting with that since most of our students taking math of course need to interact with it, and some of them are not Braille readers.
So far we haven’t figured out a good interactive solution – while the mathML is dropped into Word with MathType, so far all our JAWS testers have said it does not interact appropriately with screen-reading technology until it is pushed to MathPage, which of
course renders it non-editable. We’re still working on that problem and will let you know if we find a working solution…
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hi Wink and Teresa,<br>
We too are finding that MathType w/MS Word 2010 for Windows works well to output MathML which a student can access with a PC using Internet Explorer w/the MathPlayer plug-in.
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I don't know of an equivalent solution for the Mac unfortunately. But I have another question.<br>
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Can math in a Word document be made accessible, say if you have an online assignment you want the student to work on and turn in? Is our only option to making online math documents accessible, to make them into a MathML web pages?
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I understand that PDFs with math cannot be made accessible. But can a MS Word document w/math equations be made accessible without turning it into a web page?
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