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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Susan, LEAN is capable of reading and creating anything expressible in (Presentation) MathML up to version 3. In fact, one problem is that it is somewhat overwhelming for people just beginning simple algebra, so one or more simplified versions will soon become available. For now, you have the Cadillac. This is no concern if you only need to make those alt tags though. If you can write the math equations in MathType, you just need to select the document, go to the desktop, and click on the LEAN_In icon. It then marches through the document adding those alt tags.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>If you want to change the alt text format, you would open the LEAN_Edit app, press CTRL_+p to go to its preference menu, and then change the alt text format. Then do the LEAN_In trick again. This is not a difficult process!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I have just posted a preprint of a paper I gave earlier this month at the ICCHP (International Conference on Computers Helping People with special needs). It is on the Access2Science web site, and the direct link is:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.access2science.com/mathml/The%20LEAN%20Math%20Accessible%20MathML%20Editor.htm">http://www.access2science.com/mathml/The%20LEAN%20Math%20Accessible%20MathML%20Editor.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The paper is 8 pages long and gives a pretty thorough overview of LEAN. FYI LEAN was not written to provide access to reading math, although it does that. It was written to give people with print disabilities a fast and convenient way to write and manipulate math. And it does that!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>John<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Susan Kelmer [mailto:Susan.Kelmer@Colorado.EDU] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 23, 2014 7:03 AM<br><b>To:</b> john.gardner@oregonstate.edu; Access Technology Higher Education Network<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Athen] MathType/MathML questions<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Does this work for higher-level math? That is what we’re dealing with, and none of us are content experts so I doubt we could write the alt text needed and make it right. That is why we are using MathType in the first place.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Susan Kelmer<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Alternate Format Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Disability Services<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>University of Colorado<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>303-735-4836<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> athen-list [<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu">mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Gardner<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 22, 2014 6:41 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] MathType/MathML questions<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Susan, there is a simpler and, in many respects, better solution that might interest you. Download<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.viewplus.com/downloads/lean/Accessible_Word_MathType_Examples.zip">http://www.viewplus.com/downloads/lean/Accessible_Word_MathType_Examples.zip</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>and have a look at the three Word files in it. They are identical except for the MathType alt text. One has alt text as words (eg a x squared plus b x plus c equals 0), the other two have Nemeth in the alt text, one using ASCII font, and the other using Unicode font. The alt text is accessible with all screen readers. If your student reads with a braille display, this is a much better solution than MathPage, because it is braille. And of course, it is also the original Word document, so your footers and headers are thre.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>These were created using my new LEAN Math application. You can have the application, now in late beta, if you wish. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>John<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> athen-list [<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu">mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Susan Kelmer<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 22, 2014 8:38 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:dsshe-l@listserv.buffalo.edu">dsshe-l@listserv.buffalo.edu</a>; Access Technology Higher Education Network (<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>)<br><b>Subject:</b> [Athen] MathType/MathML questions<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are getting a lot of requests for math of late, and this has not been our strong point in production. So, we’re still in a bit of a learning mode. We’ve discovered a few things, and need some help. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When converting to MathPage after editing our Word document using MathType, we are finding two problems:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>We put page number in the header section of word documents as a matter of routine. The page numbers disappear in the finalized document, and we’re not sure why.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>b.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>If we have footnotes (we use the footnote function in Word to create them), the output to MathPage fails.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>None of us working on conversions (me or my student staff) are “math people,” so we are doing some struggling but making our way through. If someone could help us with these two issues, we’d be grateful!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Susan Kelmer<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Alternate Format Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Disability Services<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>University of Colorado<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>303-735-4836<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>