[Blindmath] jaws and Mathplayer

[Ben Humphreys]

I could never get mathplayer to read anything successfully with 
either IE 8 or 9, although they claim it's supposed to work with IE 8.

The idea that JAWS is the problem makes sense...

Ben


At 12:33 AM 9/28/2011, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>For anybody who has jaws installed, and uses Internet Explorer, and 
>who has Mathplayer working: could you please email me?
>
>I felt it on topic for this list, as Mathplayer from Design Science 
>is the only possible way to seamlessly get access to MathML
>inside the browser, with a screen reader, and yet, it appears that 
>Jaws has stopped supporting this essential way to consume
>mathematics online.
>
>If it's working or not working for you, or if you're willing to have 
>me tell you how to install math player, so you can help test
>it: that would be fantastic.
>
>Oh, if it's a problem on Design Science's end, I know we can most 
>likely get it resolved. After all, they care so much about math
>accessibility to actually have a person on this very list, but more 
>importantly, it doesn't seem to be them. MSAA inspection tools
>are reporting that, in fact, they are outputting the correct 
>information, so it's probably on Freedom Scientific's end. If we can
>get more folks interested and talking about this issue with Freedom 
>Scientific at their support email address, which is
>support at freedomscientific.com, it will go a long way for getting 
>back some basic access to the mathematics out there on the web.
>
>Feel free to contact me with non-math related stuff off list at 
>sbahram at nc.rr.com
>
>Take care,
>Sina
>
>
>
>
>
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