[Blindmath] MathType and JAWS

[Stephen L Noble]

Sometimes when you are using a machine which had Firefox installed first
(before installing MathPlayer for IE) there is a setting made which
defaults xht files to be opened by Firefox. You can change this by
navigating to the folder where you saved the xht file you exported from
MathType and doing a right-click on an xht file, and then clicking on
properties. You can then change the "opens with" setting to IE.

There can be a number of other issues which cause problems in IE, such
as changing the security settings in IE so that it will allow ActiveX
content to run. But if you are opening the xht file in Firefox, JAWS
won't read the math correctly. The MathPlayer add-on doesn't add any
functionality to Firefox, only to IE.

--Steve Noble

>>> Bente Casile <bjcasile at waketech.edu> 10/19/2011 10:23 AM >>>
I am trying to create documents with MathType that can be read by JAWS.
 I am saving, selecting publish to a math page, display in default
browser (which always chooses Firefox even though I try to change it on
my control panel to IE) selecting all browsers, and checking the box for
saving with MathML.  When my computer generates the local web page JAWS
does not read the math correctly.  I have installed Math Player.  Does
anyone know what I am doing wrong??  Feeling pretty stupid right now.

Bente

Bente J. Casile
Math Learning Specialist
Disability Services
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Wake Technical Community College 
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