[Blindmath] Compatibility of IE 9 with MathPlayer

[Neil Soiffer]

My apologies -- I thought I had posted something recently.  I guess it is
time for another post...

Here are two relevant posts from last year.  One is on our general interest
blog and the other on our accessibility blog:

http://news.dessci.com/2010/10/index.html
http://accessiblemath.dessci.com/2010/08/accessible-elementary-math-with-mathplayer-and-mathml-3.html

Neil Soiffer
Senior Scientist
Design Science, Inc.
www.dessci.com
~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, Equation Editor ~



On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Roopakshi Pathania
<r_akshi_tgk at yahoo.com>wrote:

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> Hi Neil,
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> I cannot "see" any post on MathPlayer 3 on your blog, the last post is the
> one you made on Jan 24th. Generally speaking I do check that blog every
> month or so for anything new.
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> Its probably too late to point out these issues, but I'm reasonably certain
> that you must have addressed them in the new release.
> Still, for my own satisfaction, here are the major issues I hope that you
> have already looked at for MP3
>   :-)
>
> 1. A way to change/ modify specific terms like "super", "sub", and others.
> As you may already know, in the rest of the world different terms are used
> to describe Mathematical positions and structures.
> 2. Easier way to make MathJax enabled websites work with screen readers +
> MathPlayer.
> The instructions on MathJax.org for rendering MathML with MathPlayer is
> incorrect for screen reader users. I was considering posting more
> appropriate instructions on this list for the same, but I'm hoping that you
> could do something to address transitioning issues from MathJax rendering to
> MathPlayer rendering.
>
> Regards
> --- On Tue, 3/22/11, Neil Soiffer <NeilS at dessci.com> wrote:
>
> From: Neil Soiffer <NeilS at dessci.com>
> Subject: Re: Compatibility of IE 9 with MathPlayer
> To: "Roopakshi Pathania" <r_akshi_tgk at yahoo.com>
> Cc: blindmath at nfbnet.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 12:40 AM
>
> We are (and have been since the fall) working on new release of MathPlayer
> that will work with IE9. We've had to introduce some new technology to make
> MathPlayer work with IE and we worked with the IE team to come up with
> workarounds to the problems IE9 created.  We hope to release the new version
> of MathPlayer near the end of April.  Until then, I would advise against
> downloading IE9 if you use MathPlayer.
>
>
> This new version of MathPlayer has several new features including the
> ability to generate different "styles" of speech, support for multiple
> languages, and enhanced compatibility with MathJax (mathjax.org).  I have
> blogged about MathPlayer 3 at accessiblemath.dessci.com and will be
> talking about it more in the next few weeks.
>
>
> Neil Soiffer
> Senior Scientist
> Design Science,
> Inc.
> www.dessci.com
>
> ~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, Equation Editor
> ~
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Roopakshi Pathania <
> r_akshi_tgk at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I've been hesitant to install IE 9 because there were issues with
> MathPlayer with an earlier release of IE9 as documented here:
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> http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/tech/MathMLinHTML5.htm
>
> and here:
>
> http://www.mathjax.org/2010/08/25/news/mathml-in-html5-problems-with-ie9/
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> Has anything changed since then?
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