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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">In my experience, Ally doesn’t offer much for STEM out of the box.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">For example it won’t render content created using the Microsoft Equation editor at all, it just ignores it and doesn’t reproduce it in its alternate formats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">And in cases where you use superscript or subscript in standard text, for example kW = 10<sup>3
</sup>W, Ally will render it as kW = 103<sup> </sup>W in its alternative formats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We’re working on creating a workflow to prepare files for example from a tex/Latex source into a format which will then perform well with Ally’s alternative formats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Matt<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 <athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Patrick McCue<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 21 November 2022 16:24<br>
<b>To:</b> athen-list@u.washington.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Ally for digital STEM course content<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.5pt;background:#F7F9FA"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#8D3970">CAUTION:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#8D3970"> This e-mail originated outside the
University of Southampton. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">We are considering implementing Ally to assist us with monitoring and improvement of digital course content. We've had a chance to test the tool in a test environment but would love to hear
from universities who use Ally specifically on how it performs with STEM content. For example, have you used it successfully to make math or engineering content accessible to screen reader users? Or does that type of content still require significant human
intervention in most cases to be made accessible?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">Thanks! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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