[Blindmath] Math Player Questions

[Neil Soiffer]

Answering your questions in order:

1. MathPlayer 3 should work with IE9 and earlier. Many people have used it
with various screen readers. If you hare having a problem, please send
details (web page, os version, screen reader version, version of IE, ...)
to support at dessci.com and they will look into the problem.

2. MathPlayer doesn't have a UI that supports customizing how symbols are
spoken. However, the speech rules are in text files that can be edited by
users. If you look in the MathPlayer directory (probably C:\Program Files
(x86)\Design Science\MathPlayer), you will see a "Rules" directory. In that
directory, find the language you want to modify (e.g., "en" for English)
and open that directory. In that directory, open up the file unicode.tdl
and find the symbol being used for "times" that you want to modify (you
need to know it's Unicode value). Then just change the string associated
with that value.

3. As part of a joint grant with ETS, we have been working on a project
that not only works in all browsers, but also works with Word and
PowerPoint. It also supports navigation of the math to make it easier to
understand large equations. The catch is that your screen reader needs to
call it. At the moment, the folks who work on JAWS are not interested in
calling it and are instead working on something on their own. Window-Eyes
and NVDA have non-released versions that work with it. The other catch is
that it is taking much longer than I hoped to get this out the door. I
apologize to all of you whose hopes I raised at CSUN.

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



On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Bhavya shah via Blindmath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Dear all.
> I have not read Blindmath threads for a long while, so apologies if
> any of my questions has already been discussed in detail in recent
> times.
> Q 1 Does Math Player 3 make Internet Explorer never respond?
> I have tested on several machines (with decent specs), but Math Player
> v 3 has never been able to open a considerably small HTML file without
> ever making Internet Explorer (v 8 and 9) not respond. I therefore
> downgraded to v 2.1 where the not responding issue had disappeared.
> Do you all face this issue?
> Is Design Science aware of this issue?
> To me it seems a major/critical issue.
> Q 2 Can the user customize how symbols are displayed by Math Player?
> For e.g. the multiplication symbol is displayed as times by Math
> Player. However, I want it to be shown as multiplied by to the screen
> reader. Is this achievable. If not, how can I ask Design Science to
> add such a feature?
> Q 3 Will Math Player ever be compatible with other web browsers?
> Has Design Science thought of making Math Player compatible with other
> web browsers? Examples could be an accessible web browser as Firefox.
> Hope someone will clarify the above doubts.
> I would appreciate any assistance.
> Best Regards
> Bhavya Shah
>
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