[Blindmath] A Post on Displaying Mathematics on the Web

[Roopakshi Pathania]

Hi Michael,

You did a good job explaining the techniques that make Maths accessible on the blog.
I am still following the discussion, and may chip in later.
Meanwhile, after reading the discussion, I have found out about a few new tools for rendering MathML like jsMaths. I am going to try those out. I am sure that you'll do your own testing too, so please keep us posted.

In India, and probably in other countries as well, many blind students who wish to pursue introductory and intermediate level of courses in Mathematics are unable to do so because of the difficulties in obtaining the necessary material in an accessible format. The web is of course an easy way of finding material of this nature.  LaTeX and HTML with LaTeX alt tags is not necessarily an intuitive way of understanding Maths especially when the student is not a native English speaker.

Regards

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


--- On Sat, 10/31/09, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com>
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] A Post on Displaying Mathematics on the Web
> To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics" <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009, 7:26 AM
> Yes I agree it looks interesting. One
> obvious (at least as a member of this list it is obvious)
> thing missing in all that discussion is accessibility of
> maths. May be its worth mentioning this to them. As an
> example, they mention both mathml and openmath as standards,
> does anyone know of the accessibility of openmath? At least
> we have some tools, would be nice to have more, which make
> mathml accessible.
> 
> I probably will make a post there on the topic of
> accessibility, but if others also feel they want to comment
> then go on, more posts about accessibility the better I
> think, we really should try and raise some awareness of it.
> 
> Michael Whapples
> On 31/10/09 00:10, Roopakshi Pathania wrote:
> > http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/displaying-mathematics-on-the-web/#comments
> > 
> > Interesting blog post and the discussion that
> follows.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly
> are, far more than our abilities."
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> > ~ JK Rowling
> > 
> > 
> > 
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