Dear EASI,
Anyone interested in XML, may be interested in a presentation at this year's CSUN. Design Science has taken the first steps with MathType and MathReader. They have produced a rudimentary math-to-speech reader for MathML, a subset of XML. The MathReader works with "some popular algebra systems," Mathmatica, Maple and MathType. Here is a description from the Design Science web site.
http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/tech/default.htm
"How does MathPlayer work?
When someone visits a Web page that contains math, Internet Explorer "sees" a document written in HTML containing MathML "islands" for each equation. Some information in the header of the document tells Internet Explorer that MathPlayer software is to be used to display and print the MathML islands. Internet Explorer loads and executes the MathPlayer software on an as-needed basis. Whenever Internet Explorer sees MathML, it gives it to MathPlayer to display on the screen (or print it). The technology by which this all occurs is Microsoft's Behaviors which is available only in the Windows version of Internet Explorer."
I assume that John Gardner's Tiger will emboss a MathType document. John? Since Maple is the engine in Scientific Notebook, I wonder if MathPlayer will read a Scientific Notebook document which can also be sent to Duxbury and brailled?
Does anyone have any additional information?
If you are interested in XML, MathML, VRML, etc., the W3C site has extensive information.
Richard Jones
Assistant Director
Disability Resources for Students
Arizona State University
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Subject: Re: XML>XHTML>Accessibility
Lloyd,
Thank you for the link and information. I'm anxious to read through the
site!
Mary J. Barnett
Lloyd Rasmussen wrote:
> XML, as such, can represent just about any kind of computer data, and is
> not automatically accessible. But various organizations have defined
> document type definitions and schemas for the representation of
> documents. You have a better chance of creating an accessible version, in
> general, if you are starting from an XML document. Many of the tools,
> including XSLT stylesheets, are still under development or rather
> specialized.
>
> I am on the advisory committee for the ANSI/NISO Z39.86 specification for
> the digital talking book, which is often called Daisy 3.
>
> You can find some information, at various technical levels, at
> http://www.daisy.org
> and
> http://www.loc.gov/nls/z3986
> . XML is popping up in math, in graphics, in repurposeable web content,
> synchronized multimedia (but not usually the video or audio itself), and
> other places. This is a promising work in progress.
>
> At 03:19 PM 4/9/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've been reading about XML, XHTML, and the capability of XML to provide
>> output in various versions through different modules and to support
>> specialized components like multimedia. I'm still a little fuzzy about
>> all this, so I wondered if someone could point me to resources that
>> discuss possible current/future capabilities of XML to provide different
>> versions of output (large text, accessible XHTML, Braille etc.)
>>
>> On the other hand, if I don't understand what I've been reading at all,
>> will someone please point me to discussions that might increase my
>> understanding of XML.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mary Jane Barnett
>>
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