Hi John and others,
I have several questions pertaining to this discussion thread. Just
yesterday, a (sighted) math professor asked me about accessible
alternatives to math texts that he currently prepares with the help of
LaTeX and then converts into pdf files. If I understand John correctly,
the only browser-readable alternative would be to create the document in
mathML. I have three follow-up questions:
1. What would be a good mathML authoring tool? (I found a downloadable
version of EzMath on the web, but it appears to be an out-of-date
experimental version.)
2. What other accessible alternatives are there if web-browser
readability is not a requirement? Technique 8.2.2 on the NCAM-WGBH site
suggests the use of MAVIS to convert LaTeX into Nemeth Code (math
Braille). Is this still considered to be a viable solution?
3. What would be a good up-to-date article that discusses the options
available to someone wishing to create accessible electronic math and
science documents and that I could recommend, as introductory reading,
to this math professor?
Thanks,
Axel Schmetzke
Associate Professor
Library
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
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Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 2:16 PM
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Subject: Re: Mathematics text-to-speech software
If the math is being read with a web browser and if it is in the form of
mathML, then one can read it with almost any screen reader except
Jaws. [Jaws is repairing a problem with their MSAA support and have
promised that Jaws will read math with the next patch]. One needs only
to
be sure that you are using Internet Explorer 6 and the free MathPlayer
(version 2, now available in late beta form) mathML plug-in from Design
Science, http://www.dessci.com.
Otherwise a human reader is the only text to speech technology that can
read math.
John Gardner
At 12:01 PM 1/27/2004, Nancy Conklin wrote:
>Does anyone know of text-to-speech software that will read
>mathematics? This is
>for a computer graphics course, the math looks like algebra and
trigonometry.
>Thanks,
>Nancy Conklin
>Mesa State College
>Grand Junction, CO
>
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