[BlindMath] [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Re: Math content over multiple lines in webpages

[Robin Williams]

Thank you Doug, it may indeed well be time for me to make the switch. I have used JAWS for going on twenty years now, out of habbit as much as anything else. I have seen few substantial improvements in recent years, at least in the areas that are of importance to me, and it makes sense for those of us who work in STEM fields to throw our support behind those products that are truly interested in promoting and improving accessibility.

All the best,
Robin

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From: BlindMath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Doug and Molly Miron via BlindMath
Sent: 21 November 2018 17:10
To: Robin Williams via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Doug and Molly Miron <mndmrn at hbci.com>
Subject: [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Re: [BlindMath] Math content over multiple lines in webpages

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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