[Blindmath] accessible math websites

[Roopakshi Pathania]

Hi Sarah,

You have raised one of my favourite topics. I rely a lot on the web to understand mathematical and other concepts.
I am listing here some of the sites that I frequent. Contact me off-list, and we might just go for more site hunting!

http://www.opentextbook.org/category/maths/
A blog that lists books under open licences. This implies LaTeX source for the books! 

http://www.math.uah.edu/STAT/
A virtual probability lab with material in MathML.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Mathematics
A sister site to Wikipedia, but with books having LaTeX tags.

http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~kouba/ProblemsList.html
A web page hosting Calculus problems and solutions with LaTeX tags.

http://www.exampleproblems.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
A wiki hosting user generated examples with solutions, again with LaTeX tags.

Also, to add to what Michael said, whare ever you see "\" and "$" symbols, you'll know that it is LaTeX.
One last thing, despite what any one says on the list, both MathML and LaTeX have there uses as far as reading mathematics gos.

Regards
Roopakshi from India


--- On Mon, 3/16/09, sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca <sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca> wrote:

> From: sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca <sarah.jevnikar at utoronto.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] accessible math websites
> To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
> Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 6:37 AM
> 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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