[BlindMath] Help with NVDA and MathML

Alberto Ortiz alberto.ortiz.mendes at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 18:00:11 UTC 2018


Thanks Steve

I installed Mathplayer, now i can read some formulas on Internet Explorer,
but for some reason i still cant read on Mozzila.

But now i realize that MathPlayer dont have Portuguese on his languages, is
there anyway of reading formulas with NVDA without using MathPlayer.


- --Alberto Ortiz




Em Seg, 16 de jul de 2018 14:56, Noble,Stephen L. <
steve.noble at louisville.edu> escreveu:

> If you are finding that NVDA is not reading the math expressions, be sure
> that you have MathPlayer installed on your PC. Here's the direct download
> link: https://www.dessci.com/en/dl/MathPlayerSetup.exe
>
> You can read more about MathPlayer on this page: https://www.dessci.com/
> en/products/mathplayer/download.htm
>
>
> Hope that helps,
>
>
> --Steve Noble
>
>
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> *From:* BlindMath <blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org> on behalf of Alberto
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> *Subject:* [BlindMath] Help with NVDA and MathML
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> I’m Alberto, and I work with Math texts in a VEL (Virtual Environment
> Learning) called
> Canvas and need NVDA to read formulas in this platform. However, Canvas
> sees LaTex as
> an image which NVDA cannot read. So far I´ve described all formulas like
> text from image
> attributes, so NVDA can read it. However, I need to find another way of
> doing this reading
> but run into the issues as follows.
>
>
> 1) Using of MathML
> I’ve looked in the old threads and, as far as I know, NVDA can read pages
> that use
> MathML. In YouTube, I’ve found a video that shows the reading being made:
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.
> youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3Dckx-2Djl99Iic&d=DwIGaQ&c=
> OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=
> 67olWPWhVEsI50vpRdydglG2RHA1T81UHrTuRDeUqW4&m=IiJF--XJbPEma-
> eRSjBibl3VTs1ouk-pGYq9rvSjUME&s=bn6ozpu7vH2X5PjrOhSY_
> QzlzgaBGdR0Q4JVM1NtPr4&e=
>
> I’ve installed NVDA to test this reading, but I couldn’t read it properly.
> Therefore, I
> tried to read this page that is using MathML and I also failed:
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.
> freedomscientific.com_content_html_jawshq_MathML-2DSamples.
> html&d=DwIGaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=
> 67olWPWhVEsI50vpRdydglG2RHA1T81UHrTuRDeUqW4&m=IiJF--XJbPEma-
> eRSjBibl3VTs1ouk-pGYq9rvSjUME&s=3ruHgaNQTW6aZALzqbbCNXqKnwk-
> rldmu2dg_CWni7I&e=
>
> I use Firefox and the page loads correctly but NVDA doesn’t recognize the
> formulas
> and reads them as a normal text. In the third topic, for example, it can’t
> recognize
> fractions. It reads them, again, as a text.
> Maybe I need some sort of NVDA’s plugin to do this reading?
>
> 2) Describing formulas
> Does any standard exist to describe formulas? I have difficulties to
> describe limits,
> matrixes and equations. Now, we’re describing formulas and making tests
> with a
> blind person to check if he can read, but we really need a describing
> template.
>
> Does
> anyone know if any type of template exists for it?
>
>
> Another and last thing: is there any page with examples of accessible math
> texts? If
> they exist, do you know where I can consult them?
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