[Blindmath] Introduction

[Roopakshi Pathania]

Hi,

First of all, I appreciate your interest in making your project –nLab as accessible as possible.

I am a regular visitor of Prof. Terence Tao’s blog, which by the way is accessible due to the LaTeX source for the equations.

I think that most of the points about accessibility of Mathematics have been addressed already, so I am just going to list a few examples of sites that in my view do a good job of providing accessible Math content and are also easy to navigate with a screen reader.

MathML

- A book from MIT

http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/18/18.013a/textbook/MathML/index.xhtml

- A site providing Algebraic course concepts and exercises

http://onemathematicalcat.org/


HTML with LaTeX source for the images

- Wikibooks

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

- The art of problem solving

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/

There are more sites, blogs and wikis that provide LaTeX source for their content.

Regards

"Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others."
~ John Maynard Keynes


--- On Wed, 11/4/09, Andrew Stacey <andrew.stacey at math.ntnu.no> wrote:

> From: Andrew Stacey <andrew.stacey at math.ntnu.no>
> Subject: [Blindmath] Introduction
> To: "Blindmath" <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 1:42 AM
> Dear Blindmath Community,
> 
> I've just joined your mailing list, and would like to
> bombard you with some
> questions, so thought I should introduce myself
> first.  I learnt about your
> list from Michael Whapples, via a comment on Terrence Tao's
> blog about
> displaying mathematics on the web (I believe that he has
> mentioned this
> discussion in a comment on this list before I joined).
> 
> I am a mathematician, currently living in Norway.  I
> am particularly
> interested in using technology to make my (i.e. a
> mathematician's) job easier.
> One part of this is in using technology to improve our
> communication of
> mathematics, both to other mathematicians and to the wider
> community.  In
> particular, I am one of the team behind the n-lab project
> (http://ncatlab.org/nlab) which is a sort of "open lab
> book" for
> mathematicians (and a few others).
> 
> This brings up the issue of accessibility.  In making
> our mathematics
> available, we need to think about how our audience will
> access it.  It's very
> easy to design a website that looks alright to me, but
> that's no guarantee
> that it will be accessible to all.  So I was pleased
> to learn of this list
> from Michael and would love to learn from you, in
> particular get some guidance
> on how best to make a website accessible to partially
> sighted and blind users.
> 
> This issue has recently taken on a more personal note for
> me as none of my
> children have perfect vision.  I don't think that any
> would qualify as
> partially sighted: the one with the worst vision should
> still be able to drive
> a car when he's older, but it has made me think a little
> more about how much
> they will be able to use a computer, especially given how
> much an integral
> part of our lives computers now are.
> 
> As I said, I shall shortly be bombarding you with questions
> - I hope you don't
> mind this - but thought it polite to provide a little
> background as to why I'm
> asking them first.
> 
> Andrew Stacey
> 
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