[Blindmath] questions about LaTeX and accessibility for blind people

[Roopakshi Pathania]

Yes, MathMl can be made accessible on other platforms using different methods.
Besides, MathML is better than a regular HTML page with images and accompanying LaTeX alt tags since not every blind user would understand LaTeX.

Sometime ago, I wrote to the developer of Firevox regarding MathML and never got a reply.
Anyhow open source or not, I'm happy that Design Science support the accessibility of MathML, which is an extremely important standard.

The reason why Firefox doesn’t have support for accessible MathML is lack of resources.
Presently the WebKit developers are trying to implement MathML support, which will then be available to Safari users. I’m waiting to see if Apple would then make MathML accessible with VoiceOver.

For those who use Kurzweil, I have read that the next version will have MathML support, and though I’m not sure, but I think that Kurzweil is cross-platform.

Regards

--- On Fri, 8/6/10, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com>
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] questions about LaTeX and accessibility for blind people
> To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics" <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Friday, August 6, 2010, 3:09 AM
> MathML is sort of accessible on
> Linux. If you have the XHTML file and read Braille then you
> can use liblouisxml to produce a BRF file. Also it used to
> be accessible with speech in firefox using the firevox
> plugin which makes firefox self voice the page content and
> did sort of support mathml (I say sort of support mathml as
> it didn't know all symbols, etc, but I am sure with a little
> work it could have been much better). I don't know if the
> firevox plugin is still being maintained.
> 
> Michael Whapples
> On -10/01/37 20:59, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
> > Hmmm. Both of those seem like reasonable options. I
> honestly think I'm
> > more inclined to use the alt= method simply because it
> doesn't require
> > you use Windows+Math Player+IE. Not all of us do. I am
> a firefox user
> > for example, and I'd rather use a solution that would
> allow as many as
> > possible to access it. That being said, MathML is not
> to be completely
> > discounted. What I'll probably end up doing is trying
> both solutions and
> > seeing how each works.
> >    
> 
> 
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