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<p>Here are a few resources to consider:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.hawkeslearning.com/Accessibility/guides/mathml_content.html">http://www.hawkeslearning.com/Accessibility/guides/mathml_content.html</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.daisy.org/z3986/structure/SG-DAISY3/part2-math.html">http://www.daisy.org/z3986/structure/SG-DAISY3/part2-math.html</a></p>
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<p>There is need for much more documentation of best practices in this area, but little funding to provide the people-hours to write it up. Gives me an idea of a grant proposal I need to write. But, alas, the reviewers probably won't understand the importance
and it will never get funded. Perhaps something the Benetech Standards Workgroup is planning to address.</p>
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<p>--Steve Noble<br>
steve.noble@louisville.edu<br>
502-969-3088<br>
<a href="http://louisville.academia.edu/SteveNoble" target="_blank">http://louisville.academia.edu/SteveNoble</a></p>
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<div id="divRpF846932" style="DIRECTION: ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> athen-list [athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] on behalf of Brian Richwine [blrichwine@gmail.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 10, 2017 4:03 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] MathML Accessibility Guidelines<br>
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<div>Do anyone know of a guidance document for creating proper MathML for accessibility? Kind of a WCAG for MathML?</div>
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<div>A major publisher provided us what they are calling an accessible HTML textbook. However, the MathML employed in the textbook is designed for display formatting instead of as appropriate for a non-visual user. </div>
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<div>By display MathML I mean that the MathML makes heavy use of mtables (including multiple levels of nested mtables) to layout equations and annotation of equations within a multi-columnar/multi-row arrangement. The tables do not linearize logically. When
it's not a total mess, the non-visual user would still have to develop an spacial 2D guess as how the math equation is arranged and then analyze the multiple nested tables into a 2D space around that equation before making any sense of the annotation.</div>
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<div>If possible, I'm looking for some official or at least respected source of this information so that the publisher will take the feedback as credible. </div>
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<div>I'd also be interested if anyone has had successful conversations with a publisher regarding appropriate use of MathML in textbooks for accessibility.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div> Brian Richwine</div>
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