[Blindmath] math type accessibility with jaws screen reader,

[tolga karatas]

Lewis,

Many thanks for your message.

Will I need in this case need to download the NVDA screen reader?
because I currently have jaws 17.0.2727 installed on my laptop.

Regards,

Tolga.

On 25/02/2017, Louis Maher <ljmaher at swbell.net> wrote:
> Hello Tolga,
>
> If you are willing to learn LaTex, MathType is accessible for the blind
> with
> JAWS.  Here is a message I received from Neil Soiffer (I do not have a
> current e-mail address for Neil).  Note that while he talks about NVDA,
> MathTypes works well in JAWS.
>
> I do not think you need MathPlayer in JAWS.
> -----
> "You can use Word+NVDA+MathPlayer+MathType to author and read math if you
> are willing to learn the math component of LaTeX. If you already have a
> document with math in it, then the above combination will work for *reading
> *and navigating the math by speech. If you want to author math, then in
> Word
> you can type in some LaTeX between $ $ and use MathType to convert that
> into
> MathType math (so it looks nice), which can then be spoken and navigated.
> Given that it is easy to make a mistake in LaTeX, hearing the math gives
> you
> a way to know that you have typed it correctly. If you didn't, then you
> convert it back into LaTeX and edit it and listen again.
>
> FYI: changing between LaTeX and vice-versa is done with ""Toggle TeX""
> which
> has the keyboard shortcut alt+\. As the name ""Toggle"" implies, alt+\ will
> also change the MathType equation back to TeX.
>
> Here is a concrete example, if you want to write ""the integral from 0 to
> 10
> of x times e to the negative 2x power, d x"", you would type into Word:
> $\int_0^{10} x e^{-2 x} dx$ alt+\
>
> Press left arrow to move before the math to make NVDA read the math to you.
> If you made a mistake, type alt+\ and move right to edit the LaTeX.
>
> FYI: when I initially typed the example, I made a common TeX error of not
> putting the ""10"" inside of {}s. Be careful to add braces to any subscript
> or superscript that is more than one character.
>
> Neil Soiffer
> Use insert equations to start entering an equation.
>
> -----
>
> If you are on the image of an equation, you type alt+backslash and the
> equation will be converted to LaTex, and you can read and change it.
>
> I have attached an example file to try this.
>
>
> I am just beginning to learn this.
>
>
>
> Regards
> Louis Maher
> Phone: 713-444-7838
> E-mail: ljmaher at swbell.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of tolga
> karatas via Blindmath
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 4:45 PM
> To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
> Cc: tolga karatas <tolga.karatas2014 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Blindmath] math type accessibility with jaws screen reader,
>
> Dear Sir/madam,
>
> I am a visually impaired studying a  degree in BSC Business Information
> technology:
>
> I would like to use Math Type with a screen reader called Jaws, but jaws
> isn't user friendly with math type due to LaTEX not being user friendly
> either, how can I over come this challenge please? I really want to use
> math
> type with Jaws Screen reader, however, the accessibility is not their.
>
> Can someone advise me as to how I can solve this problem/challenge please?
>
>
>
>
> Yours Faithfully,
>
>
>
>
> Tolga Karatas
>
> I am a blind student studying BSC Business Information Technology.
>
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