[Blindmath] MathJax Accessibility: math/STEM universal access/design

[Neil Soiffer]

MathJax works with MathPlayer to provide accessibility if you use IE.
There are some issues with MathJax and MathPlayer 2 if people didn't
configure their site to allow users to choose the renderer, but most of
those have been resolved with MathPlayer 3 (which might be available next
week).

MathJax is a great solution which has already greatly increased the amount
of math that is accessible on the web.  Design Science is one of the
founding sponsers for MathJax work and we are working to make sure the math
rendered by it is accessible.

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


On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Kevin Chao <kevinchao89 at gmail.com> wrote:

> MathJax is an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics
> that works in all modern browsers.
> No more setup for readers. No more browser plugins. No more font
> installations… It just works.
> Accept following sources:
> LaTeX
> MathML
>
> http://www.mathjax.org/
>
> Unfortunately, there's not an MathJax accessibility API, which web
> browsers can use, which will allow assistive technologies, such as
> screen readers to work with beautiful math in all browsers. As far as
> I'm aware, there's no MathJax accessibility in Windows IE9/8, Chrome
> 15-17, Firefox 4-10; Mac OS X Safari, Webkit, Lightning, and/or
> Chrome; iOS 5 Safari; Android Mobile Accessibility Web browser or
> Ideal Web Reader.
>
> MathJax has the potential to make math/STEM accessibility truly
> universal and not speicific to MathML and IE8, MathPlayer 2.2, and
> JAWS 12.
>
> It has the potential to completely revolutionize math/STEM
> accessibility for all, but I would like to know what's the best
> approach in MathJax including universal access/design, and it working
> for all? Perhaps, it should be a community effort, where we all
> contact MathJax, create a petition, or some other campaign effort?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
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