[Blindmath] Accessible display format for matrices

[Ben Humphreys]

I have a textbook in PDF format that made use of the theta character, 
which JAWS glossed over without pronouncing.

Once I selected that character and added it to the dictionary, it's 
been reading quite nicely ever since.

So don't be afraid from using special unicode characters, since JAWS 
can have its custom dictionary modified to read them quite nicely.

The only downside I see to this is the difficulty of inserting such 
characters when creating new content and the difficulty of 
representing them in plain ASCII text in a Notepad type 
application.  Here the  | wins hands down over a more elaborate 
unicode character.

Ben


At 08:02 AM 11/15/2011, you wrote:
>Maybe there is a unicode
>character that could be used to create the vertical bars that typically
>appear on printed matrices. If so, I wonder how a screen reader would treat
>those characters.
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