[BlindMath] Math content over multiple lines in webpages

[Doug and Molly Miron]

Good day Robin,


I went totally blind 3.5 years ago, and bought JAWS because I had heard 
of it before.  I was unhappy with its math ability and was pointed to 
this list from which I learned about NVDA and MathPlayer.  I had little 
difficulty in adapting to NVDA and suggest that it is the way to go.  I 
am an old engineer and have written and read many multi-line equations 
with little difficulty.  It's too bad outfits like Freedom Scientific 
and Mathworks don't put more effort into their math accessibility problems.


Regards,

Doug Miron

On 11/21/2018 5:20 AM, Robin Williams via BlindMath wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having trouble when reading expressions on webpages that are split over multiple lines, using various browsers under JAWS 2018. For example, there is one such expression (the complementary cumulative distribution function) in section 2.2 of this Wikipedia page on the exponential distribution:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_distribution#Memorylessness
> These expressions would typically be generated with something like the align or eqnarray commands in LaTeX, certainly in the case of Wikipedia.
> I have contacted Freedom Scientific about this - or, more specifically, my UK vendor (Sight and Sound). We didn't get very far, and I'm not sure they fully appreciated the problem.
> I would be interested to know whether other people experience the same problem with JAWS, if anyone knows of a workaround, and the performance of other screenreaders (particularly NVDA), which I currently don't use, but am giving serious consideration.
>
> With best wishes,
> Robin
>
>
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