[Blindmath] FW: Recent posts from Design Science News

Thu Oct 10 14:27:45 UTC 2013

Thanks for this posting, it was very important to me. My school uses
Pearson products and in order to view their html version of my
Calculas book I have to use MathPlayer. I will be one of the ones in
touch with Microsoft.

Thanks again,
Tamika Williams

On 10/10/13, Lewicki, Maureen <mlewicki at bcsd.neric.org> wrote:
> Your thoughts, Folks? I am not familiar with this but it sounds like bad
> news for accessibility
>
> Maureen Murphy Lewicki
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> Microsoft cripples the display of math in IE10 &
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> Posted: 09 Oct 2013 09:25 AM PDT
> [IeNoMathml]
> <http://designscience.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54f0d27e28834019affe1def0970c-pi>
> For the past 12 years, IE users have benefited from our free MathPlayer
> plugin<http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/> to display and speak
> math on the web. MathPlayer has been downloaded over a million times and
> billions of expressions have been rendered by it on the web. Additionally,
> tens of million expressions have been spoken allowing people with
> disabilities from dyslexia to blindness to get access to math. However,
> MathPlayer cannot be made to work with IE 10 or IE11 until Microsoft decides
> it is worth their attention.
>
> Until they address the problems, it means an end to accessible math in IE --
> IE goes from being the best solution for math accessibility to having no
> math accessibility. It also means that websites that deliver math need to
> use the JavaScript-based MathJax<http://www.mathjax.org> solution if the
> math is going to render in IE. MathJax is a great solution and works with
> MathPlayer now, but without MathPlayer, the display is many times slower
> than if MathPlayer is used. So with every page containing math that you
> view, you are paying a price for the lack of MathML support in IE.
>
> Why MathPlayer doesn't work in IE10 and IE11
>
> We wish we could make MathPlayer work with IE10 and IE11, but we can't. A
> half a year ago when we released MathPlayer 3, IE10 simply had too many bugs
> for us to be able to say MathPlayer worked with it. A recent update to IE10
> fixed a number of bugs so that MathPlayer now works tantalizingly well
> except that math inside of a span or table causes IE10 to crash. The crash
> is in IE10, not MathPlayer -- earlier versions of IE work well with the same
> MathPlayer code. Unfortunately, these two cases occur quite often, so
> MathPlayer isn't usable in IE10. Microsoft is aware of the bug but indicated
> that fixing the problem was not a priority for them.
>
> There is a different reason why we can't make MathPlayer work with IE11:
> Microsoft disabled the plug-in technology MathPlayer uses to display math in
> IE called a binary behavior. Behaviors allow third party developers to
> extend the capabilities of the browser. It is a powerful idea, but
> unfortunately Microsoft disabled support for binary
> behaviors<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/bg182625%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#legacyAPIs>.
>
> What can you do?
>
> If math and accessible math on the web is important to you, make some noise!
> Write a blog post, share this story with your friends and colleagues,
> contact Microsoft directly and get your friends and colleagues to do so
> also. If they get enough direct feedback from customers - not other software
> developers, they will hopefully give this matter the attention it deserves.
> You can report Internet Explorer issues directly to them at
> http://connect.microsoft.com/IE. If you can contact their Technical Support
> Staff by telephone your report will carry even more weight. You can contact
> Microsoft Technical Support at (800) 936-5700.
>
> In the meantime, if you need math accessibility or don't want to wait extra
> time for pages to display math, don't upgrade to IE10 or IE11. That also
> means not upgrading to Windows 8.x because Windows 8.x only supports IE10
> and IE11.
>
> With your help, we hope that IE returns to being the best browser for
> viewing math.
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