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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,</p><p class="MsoNormal">We have instructional designers who are designing a Statistics course that will be completely online through our LMS (Moodle).  They understand that the course needs to be accessible, and I’ve told them about the process for making math accessible (well-structured Word doc, equations entered with MathType, publish to MathPage with MathML and IE behavior).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">They have some concerns:</p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style><span style>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span>They recommend that folks use FireFox, not IE.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style><span style>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span>The folks with Mac’s don’t have an IE option.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Their thought is to provide accessible PDF files with detailed (spoken math language) alt text for the equation gifs.  This option doesn’t seem desirable to me because they are not experts in math/statistics and will need the instructor to type out the spoken math of each equation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">My thought is to provide accessible PDF files with less detailed alt text for equation gifs.  In addition, they can provide the files produced after publishing to MathPage.  Essentially they would be providing two versions of the document.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I’ve read a little bit about MathJax, but it’s teetering on the edge of my expertise.  </p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style><span style>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span>Is MathJax simply code that is put at the beginning of an HTML document?</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style><span style>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span>What role does entering equations into a Word document with MathType play in using MathJax (does that question even make sense?)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">It seems that with MathJax, only one document needs to be provided.  For those using IE and MathPlayer, the experience will be as if Word and MathType were used (i.e., the equations will be able to be read).  For those using other browsers, the equations will display correctly. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">My ultimate question….HOW does one “use” MathJax and get to a document that displays correctly across browsers and works with IE/MathPlayer to speak the equations with the appropriate AT so that only one document needs to be provided?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I hope this question makes sense!</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!</p><p class="MsoNormal">Cassandra</p></div></body></html>