[Blindmath] Somewhat positive yet disappointing press release

[patti at 4dewitt.com]

In addition, as a technology teacher of the blind in nj, most kids are at the mercy of the commission or the schools for their technology. They get them jaws most times.
Universal access is my dream. It should all be interconnected
On the other hand, Jaws users have a huge underground of script writers who may already have solved my problem

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Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 20:57:31 
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Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Somewhat positive yet disappointing press release

See this is where I have to ask.  If you use standards like html 5 and make
sure that things are more than just accessible to screen readers it won't be
hard for companies like FS to keep it accessible.  This shouldn't be a war
against companies it should be a war to make Math accessible whether a
person uses sight or sound or smell to read math.  If standards of the world
are followed rather than making up a standard just for the blind then it
won't be an issue.

Ken

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Behalf Of Neil Soiffer
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 4:13 PM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Somewhat positive yet disappointing press release

We are adding new functionality (eg, navigation for math and being able to
read math directly in a word doc without saving to a web page first).
Unless JAWS or other AT adds code to their product to take make the
appropriate calls to the new interfaces that get defined, it won't pick up
that new functionality.

Neil Soiffer
Senior Scientist
Design Science, Inc.
www.dessci.com


On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Patti Mitchell <patti at 4dewitt.com> wrote:

> Is Jaws using something else?
>
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> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Somewhat positive yet disappointing press release
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> We would like as many screen readers as possible to be part of this work.
> Freedom Scientific did not want to participate in the grant, GW Micro did.
> I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you want math support in
your
> AT, you need to make it very clear to your AT vendor that if they don't
> support math well, you'll use a different product that does.
>
> Neil Soiffer
> Senior Scientist
> Design Science, Inc.
> www.dessci.com
> ~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, Equation Editor ~
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>
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Jose Tamayo <jtblas at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > In the press release below, JAWS is not mentioned at all.  This is
> > such a significant press release yet a market player such as JAWS is
> > not even mentioned, any reason?
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> > http://www.dessci.com/en/company/press/releases/110524.htm
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