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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 13px">We have conducted two different research studies with groups of middle school students with learning disabilities in which they used XHTML+MathML<a></a> documents created with MathType<a></a>. The students used IE+MathPlayer<a></a>
with TextHelp<a></a> Read&Write<a></a> Gold, and the results were very good from an accessibility standpoint. We wrote up a case study, if you are running low on summer reading material:</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 13px"><a href="http://itd.athenpro.org/volume13/number1/lewis.html">http://itd.athenpro.org/volume13/number1/lewis.html</a></div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 13px">There are many more options available now for reading accessible math, such as VoiceOver<a></a>, and there has been developments at reading math directly in Word documents (though RWG<a></a> does not yet do
this, it can be done with NVDA<a></a>, Window-Eyes and Central Access Reader). Creating the accessible math equations remains to be time-consuming, but one good trend is that publishers and universities are quickly adopting MathJax<a></a> for rendering equations
in online materials, so the ability to find content in the wild that includes accessible equations is getting better all the time.</div>
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<p>--Steve Noble<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 10, 2015 10:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> DSSHE-L@listserv.buffalo.edu; athen-list@u.washington.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Math Text-to-speech Accessibility<br>
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<div>What is the best way - text-to-speech wise - to accommodate a student with a learning disability (not visually impaired, non-screen reader user) for a math course/course with equations? I know we could provide alternate format text descriptions for math
formula images, but I'm exploring other ways to create and/or deliver this alternate format. </div>
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<div>Some things I've heard of or explored include: MathPlayer, Central Access Reader, Chatty Infty, VoiceOver with plain MathML page in Safari...</div>
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<div>In your experiences, has one of the above worked better than others, or is easier to create, or use? What are your students happy using?</div>
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<div>How do I acquire formats in MathML or LaTeX? Is that something I have to create/convert, or do some publishers send this type of file? Several math professors at our university have kindly sent me LaTeX files for books they authored themselves. </div>
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<div>I'm used to creating STEM Braille textbooks (using MS Word, MathType, Duxbury, Tiger), not text-to-speech formats, so this is newer territory for me. We also have a Kurzweil site license, and I believe Kurzweil can read MathML, so this may also be an option.
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<div>Also, what have you done to accommodate students whose professors are using MyMathLab-like e-learning platforms? </div>
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<div>Many thanks in advance for your wisdom,</div>
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<p><i><font color="#674ea7" size="4" face="georgia, serif">Nazely Kurkjian</font></i></p>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><i><font color="#351c75" face="georgia, serif">"Shame on us... If we let the wonders of educational technology and broadband internet lead to more inequality as opposed to less"</font></i></span></div>
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