[Blindmath] Press Release: MathType 6.5 for Windows is available

Thu Dec 4 04:05:42 UTC 2008

latex source is pure ANSI text. Okay you get a lot of clutter what 
with all the macros but you'll get used to that learn to let them 
help form a better mental picture of document layout.
Paul
At 00:35 04/12/2008, you wrote:
>Hi,
>When a file is in Latex, how can a screen reader properly read it? I'm so
>new to this technology I have no idea.
>Thank you,
>Sarah Jevnikar
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Sina Bahram
>Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 6:28 PM
>To: rjc at MIT.EDU; 'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'
>Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Press Release: MathType 6.5 for Windows is
>available
>
>This seems rather strange to me. If you're willing to make the PDF
>available, then make the latex available to the student on a contingency
>basis that they do not share it with anyone else.
>
>It definitely seems to violate the true spirit of open courseware not to do
>so.
>
>Take care,
>Sina
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Rich Caloggero
>Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 5:32 PM
>To: 'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'
>Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Press Release: MathType 6.5 for Windows is
>available
>
>I work at the MIT adaptive tech. center, and we have a request from a
>student to make some of the mathematics associated with a particular course
>accessible.  The course in question is part of the Open Courseware Project
>(http://ocw.mit.edu) and the student is not an MIT student. Therefore,  the
>professor does not want to give the student the latex source (I assume
>because of copyright and intellectual property issues).  Typically, OCW
>makes their materials freely available on the web, however all the course
>materials are made available in PDF.
>
>Does anyone know if MathType could be used to convert a mathML
>representation into latex, which a screen reader user could then read?  If
>so, then the professor may be willing to convert the latex source to MathML
>and make it available to the student.
>
>
>
>
>
>-- Rich
>-----Original Message-----
>From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Michael Whapples
>Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:16 PM
>To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
>Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Press Release: MathType 6.5 for Windows is
>available
>
>I had been wondering what it might do, but I came to the same conclusion
>that for those very familiar with word then just learning the math TeX isn't
>such a steep learning curve.
>
>Is this really the best solution, probably not. I am sure that this work
>that Neil and design Science are putting into accessibility will help
>people, but sometimes I wonder whether these work arounds (relying on the
>TeX features of MathType) do improve things in the long term as some AT
>providers might say "well you can use it that way why do we need to do
>anything" without really understanding the problems and how work on their
>side might improve math accessibility. Neil's earlier comment about users
>requesting math accessibility in their AT probably is the way things need to
>go for the long term.
>
>Michael Whapples
>
>On 03/12/08 17:22, Neil Soiffer wrote:
> > As John and Theodor wrote, the WYSWYG part of MathType is not
> > accessible -- we still hope to do that some day if we can get a grant
> > to fund the work (there is no way we could ever recoup the development
> > costs with sales and we are a very small company, so budgets are very
> > tight).  However, as both John and Theordor wrote, with this new
> > feature, you can collaborate with your colleagues that use Word and
> > MathType or Equation Editor.  You only need to learn the math parts of
> > TeX, not all of TeX, so that is much less to learn.
> >
> > This won't solve everyone's access problems, but I hope it helps make
> > math in Word more accessible.
> >
> > Neil Soiffer
> > Senior Scientist
> > Design Science, Inc.
> > www.dessci.com
> > ~ Makers of Equation Editor, MathType, MathPlayer and MathFlow ~
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