[Blindmath] JAWS and Nemeth - Newbie question

[Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson]

Hello

I would be interested in off-line discussions about this for myself.
MathPlayer does not provide refreshable braille at this time, but it
does provide MathML to speech convertion. However, it does not,
currently, work with Firefox.
Have you considerred giving a paper version of the test with Nemeth
and an online version with speech (though users would have to use IE).
It is certainly not perfect, and there may be a better way, but at
least this would give users multi format math to work with.
You may want to contact Duxbury and see if they can generate .brf
Nemeth files from MathML (I am pretty sure they can, embossing with
Word and MathType equations is supposed to work very well with v11.1
of DBT).
You might be able to do this and then stick the content of the .brf
file into your web page.
There is also ongoing development with LibllouisXML, they might
provide some solutions, if not now, then in near future.
This has been a difficult issue, because this technique really
requires sending independent output to the braille display from what
is on the actual computer screen (since Nemeth often requires multiple
braille cells to display a single symbol, and also has other
indicators that print material would not require).
I will inquire and also follow this thread with interest.
I beleive we must resolve this problem going forward to make math
easier to deal with for people who depend on braille.
Thanks
-Birkir

On 2/17/11, Jose Tamayo <jtblas at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Just use ASCII for now.  The page won't be readable by anyone other than
> those reading with a refreshable display.  This is a difficult issue and it
> might help to talk off-line on this one.  Unless the group wants to hear all
> about it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Kodeswaran, Balaji
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 3:32 PM
> To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] JAWS and Nemeth - Newbie question
>
> Jose,
>
> Thank you for your response. However, I am unclear on how I get Nemeth to
> the RBD through JAWS? On our website, say we are rendering the content as
> MathML. I am told (by JAWS tech support) that JAWS cannot convert MathML to
> Nemeth. Also, since our users are primarily Firefox users, they won't have
> the benefit of MathPlayer (although it is not clear what this provides for
> IE/JAWS users in this regard). Our thoughts were to see if we could
> transcribe to Nemeth (Grade 1), stick into the web page in a hidden DIV next
> to the MathML and see if there are any ARIA (or JAWS specific markup tags)
> that we could put on the page to send this Nemeth to the Braille display.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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