[Blindmath] accessible math websites

[sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca]

Hi Michael,
That's good advice. I know this si a silly question, but how would I  
know if an equation appears in LaTeX?
Thank you,
Sarah





Quoting Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com>:

> It's not good when websites use images for the equations, but some do
> include the LaTeX source for the equation as the alt tag text. Are
> these websites doing this? If not then contact the page author if
> possible to explain the difficulty caused and suggest that they at
> least include the LaTeX for the equation in the alt tag, if not
> actually change to mathml. There are other reasons than the one you
> raised why images for equations is not good, the inability of adjusting
> the visual appearance for those who need large print or an alternative
> colour scheme, the inability for the equation/maths to be searchable,
> etc.
>
> Learning to read LaTeX is probably well worth your time. Reading LaTeX
> I feel is easier than learning to write it (IE. if you don't know a
> particular command used then either you can have a pretty good guess at
> what it is from the name and surroundings or you have a specific
> command to search for).
>
> Sorry I haven't been too useful on actual websites which are of use,
> but I feel LaTeX source for equations isn't too much to ask for, and
> ideally you shouldn't be restricted to a few websites.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 15/03/09 20:39, sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Every so often, I find my math text inadequately explains a topic,   
>> and so I wish to look it up online. However I find many math   
>> websites have equations as images that JAWS won't read. Are there   
>> any sites you know of which explain mathematical concepts that are   
>> JAWS-friendly?
>> Thank you for your help,
>> Sarah Jevnikar
>>
>>
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