[Blindmath] A Post on Displaying Mathematics on the Web

[Neil Soiffer]

A clarificaiton:  jsMath does *not* handle MathML.  jsMath requires LaTeX as
input and uses CSS to position the resulting mess it generates.  MathJax (
www.mathjax.com), the follow on to jsMath will accept either LaTeX or
MathML.


Neil Soiffer
Senior Scientist
Design Science, Inc.
www.dessci.com
~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, WebEQ, Equation
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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Roopakshi Pathania <r_akshi_tgk at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
>
> 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."
> > > said by Dumbledore
> > > ~ JK Rowling
> > >
> > >
> > >
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