[Blindmath] JSMath

[Roopakshi Pathania]

Hi Alastair,

I was thinking about the same problem for some time. Sagemath.org 
<http://sagemath.org/>
also uses JSMath and I have been wondering if the problem was only on my PC.

This is why I asked Neil in a previous mail about MathJax because it also uses JavaScript and from the website, it looks that it is going to be used by a lot of people. Plus MathJax is a kind of successor to JSMath.

MathJax is capable of rendering both LaTeX alt tags as well as MathML, and it seems to me that both forms are unreadable with a screen reader.
Frankly, this is quite alarming at least for me since I rely upon many sites to clear my concepts and even solve problems.

I was thinking about contacting the developers.

--- On Sun, 8/1/10, Alastair Irving <alastair.irving at sjc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> From: Alastair Irving <alastair.irving at sjc.ox.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Blindmath] JSMath
> To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics" <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 1, 2010, 10:12 PM
> Hi All
> 
> I've just been looking at http://mathoverflow.net which uses JSMath
> to represent mathematics.  I was wondering if anyone
> knows of a reasonable way to access JSMath using a
> screenreader?  If I open the webpage's HTML source then
> I can read the mathematics easily as it's written using a
> syntax based on LaTeX.  However, it would be better to
> be able to access this LaTeX source directly when reading
> the webpage rather than having to open the HTML.
> 
> My only idea so far is to stop my browser from loading the
> JSMath javascript files, so that the LaTeX-like syntax will
> be shown directly, but this seems rather clumsy.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> 
> Alastair Irving
> 
> 
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