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Very good questions, Krista. Thanks for researching this.
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<div class="">On 2015 Oct 15, at 16:15, KRISTA L. GREEAR <<a href="mailto:greeark@uw.edu" class="">greeark@uw.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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I have the blessing to train all the faculty at one of our campuses School of STEM about accessible math content. In my preparation I have come across these questions:<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span class="">1)<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>Why does LaTeX not work
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<div>My guess is that screen readers have been designed to interpret the HTML markup syntax, and have not yet have the market demand to build a parser for LaTeX. To dig deeper, I suspect it would be very challenging for screen readers to distinguish between
two sets of markup grammar, and to be able to interpret substitution macros in LaTeX.</div>
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<span class="">2)<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>How would you explain
professor about how to make LaTeX accessible? (aka is the only option to turn into MathML and use it in a word document or with HTML)?</div>
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<div>In certain LMS (e.g., D2L, Canvas), the equation editor includes LaTeX as one of the input methods.</div>
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<div>A handful of converters exists from a quick Internet search. Would anyone share their experience about these converters?</div>
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<div>I would love to see the groups responses. An additional question is how STEM professors are editing their documents nowadays. I can see the obvious benefits of the typesetting LaTeX in the days of command line, plus a shallow learning curve for maths
and computer science experts. What are the rest of STEM faculty using -- those who don't need complex equations everyday and don't have the need to learn a coding language?</div>
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