[Blindmath] Help with Math player

[Rasmussen, Lloyd]

The shortcut to the Information Bar is Alt-N.  In the Windows 7 sound scheme I use, the notification sound that the Information Bar has popped up is rather faint and short compared to some of the other sounds.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress   202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS.


-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 12:45 PM
To: Rasmussen, Lloyd; Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Help with Math player

One way to get to the information bar is to press f6 3 times in IE. If there is a plug in warning it should show up there.

On the Design Science test page, does it read any equations for you (such as x squared) or does it not read anything at all?
You should see MathPlayer options if you right click when inside an equation (shift-f10 will not do it, at least not with Jaws but right click simulation will, jaws key and the number 9 on my laptop keyboard).
There you should see choices like "copy MathML" "Speak Equation" and a few others.
If the page your course lab is publically accessible I can take a look at it to see if my MathPlayer will read it.
Thanks
-B

On 12/28/10, Neil Soiffer <NeilS at dessci.com> wrote:
> The most common reason we have seen for people not being able to use 
> MathPlayer is that they don't notice IE's ActiveX warning.  It's a 
> small "information bar" at the top of the content window (below the 
> various
> buttons) that appears with a beep.  What what I've heard, IE is not 
> very good with screen readers about making this warning obvious.  You 
> need to say it is ok to run the blocked content.
>
> Also, if you are using local content (eg, files you downloaded to your 
> computer), you need to make the change described here:
> http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathplayer/tsn/tsn111.htm
>
> Again, this is security issue that IE imposes on plug-ins like MathPlayer.
>
> MathPlayer will run on a 64-bit OS, but only with 32-bit IE.  32 bit 
> IE is the default because only a few vendors have a 64-bit version of 
> their plug-in; if Microsoft made the 64-bit the default, very little 
> would work with IE and users would complain.
>
> I hope this fixes your problem,
>
> Neil Soiffer
> Senior Scientist
> Design Science, Inc.
> www.dessci.com
> ~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, Equation Editor 
> ~
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Greg <gwblindman1 at gwblindman.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>> I am running JAWS 12 on a Vista 32 bit system with IE7.  I downloaded 
>> and installed Math Player 2.2.  I cant get it to work.  I have a 
>> basic algebra math class starting next week and I do my classes 
>> online.  For the tests they have an online lab that uses Math ML.  I 
>> can not get math player to work.  I went to the web page from the 
>> users manual and tried looking at there examples and I can not find 
>> any of the math player options.  I went to manage my add ons and did 
>> not see math player listed there.  Anyone have suggestions on what I 
>> can do?  Also, I have another laptop running Windows seven 64bit with 
>> IE8.  Will math player work with it?
>> Thank you,
>> Greg Wocher