[Blindmath] Request for ideas for a mac screen reader that with read MathML

[Vincenzo Rubano]

Hi,

VoiceOver, the native Mac OS screen reader, does support natively reading MathML. I would suggest using Safari as browser, since it is the one that gives the best results at the moment.

Wether VoiceOver support for MathML is of quality high enough to read the materials appropriately is another topic, though. I myself don’t consider it that way, since it lacks support for transcoding Math symbols to Braille accurately (I am an Italia user) and the cursor sometimes jumps within the document without a reason.

I’d use an iOS device or a Windows laptop running NVDA and MathPlayer to read MathML contents.

HTH


Vincenzo.


> Il giorno 14 lug 2016, alle ore 20:10, Madeleine Rothberg via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> ha scritto:
> 
> You might find useful information in the Math Support Finder, a tool under development by the Digram Center at Benetech to help with this question.
> 
> http://msf.mathmlcloud.org/
> 
> Their result for Mac OSX suggest it should work with Safari:
> http://msf.mathmlcloud.org/setups/results?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q%5Bplatform_version_platform_id_eq%5D=6&q%5Bassistive_technology_version_assistive_technology_id_eq%5D=&q%5Bbrowser_reader_version_browser_reader_id_eq%5D=&q%5Bfile_format_id_eq%5D=&q%5Boutputs_id_eq%5D=&commit=Search
> 
> -Madeleine
> 
> -- 
> Madeleine Rothberg
> Senior Subject Matter Expert
> National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH
> http://ncam.wgbh.org
> madeleine_rothberg at wgbh.org
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/14/16, 1:55 PM, "Blindmath on behalf of Kathryn Montovan via Blindmath" <blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org on behalf of blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a visually impaired student who will be taking upper-level
>> mathematics classes and does not read braille. We have been trying to work
>> out a way that he can access information from latex files auditorily. I
>> know that there are ways to move the context from latex to MathML, but we
>> are having a really hard time finding a text to voice program that reads
>> the mathML documents well on a mac. Can anybody here recommend programs
>> that correctly read MathML and work on apple computers?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Katie Montovan
>> 
>> Faculty Member of Bennington College
>> Phone: 802-440-4484
>> Email: kmontovan at bennington.edu
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