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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Krista<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">There has been some working going on in the UK that may help answer your questions. There is a publication from 2012
<a href="http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/resources/uploaded/inclusivecurricula.pdf">http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/resources/uploaded/inclusivecurricula.pdf</a> that might be useful. The articles on starting on page 19 may be useful as they explain how to blind students
developed a system of reading LaTeX in a pretty raw form as a reading medium instead of braille. They considered this the quickest route to access maths. But these were very talented mathematicians who started to develop this technique before the graduated
school. The advice we give to VI mathematicians keen to study it at college is to learn LaTeX as soon as possible.
<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">Some thoughts on your questions. The main reason that LaTeX is a difficult format to convert from into one that works with assistive technology is that it is an unstructured. That is there are no semantics within
the maths notation and it is possible to create a document without any structure. The other problem is that anyone can create their own LaTeX macros and can use a range of packages/templates used to compile the LaTeX into other formats. This has a huge impact
on how easy it is to convert LaTeX into another format. Emma Cliffe at the University of Bath is the expert in the UK on this area. She had a project in 2012 to look at the process of converting LaTeX into accessible formats -</span>
<span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.bath.ac.uk/study/mash/maths-access/overview/index.html">http://www.bath.ac.uk/study/mash/maths-access/overview/index.html</a> - and she is currently working on a project to produce an up-to-date databased on
the best techniques. I am going to talk a bit about this at Accessing Higher Ground. Currently her team prefer PlasTeX as a conversion route
<a href="http://plastex.sourceforge.net/">http://plastex.sourceforge.net/</a>.<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">Best wishes<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">Abi<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;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">======================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dr Abi James<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Assistive Technology Consultant & Researcher
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Visiting Research Fellow, University of Southampton
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">STEMReader Project Manager / Researcher
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="http://www.stemreader.co.uk"><span style="color:blue">www.stemreader.co.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Email:
<a href="mailto:a.james@soton.ac.uk"><span style="color:blue">a.james@soton.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> 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>KRISTA L. GREEAR<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 16 October 2015 00:15<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] for all you math accessibility guru’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">1)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span lang="EN-US">Why does LaTeX not work with adaptive technology?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">2)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span lang="EN-US">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)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">3)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span lang="EN-US">What do you use to go from a LaTeX-based document to a MathML one?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">4)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span lang="EN-US">Do you know of any updates about making math accessible within a PDF?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">5)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span lang="EN-US">If you got to stand in front of all math faculty at your campus, what would you want to share with them?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In return, I'm happy to share with the listserv any nuggets of gold I discover from this experience.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Krista Greear<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">University of Washington | Disability Resources for Students<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Accessible Text & Technology Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">011 Mary Gates Hall | Box 352808<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Seattle, WA 98195-2808 | <a href="http://disability.uw.edu/%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank"><span style="color:#0000E9">disability.uw.edu/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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