[BlindMath] UEB braille display

[Neil Soiffer]

MathPlayer is owned by WIRIS as you noted. I'm very sad to say WIRIS has
not agreed to publish the fixes to MathPlayer I have, let alone agreed to
let me publish future improvements such as 64 bit support for Word. I
strongly suggest people interested in seeing MathPlayer improved write to
support at wiris.com. I feel that if they aren't going to support MathPlayer
and won't have a replacement for its future in the near term, they should
at least let improvements be made to it (i'm doing this for free); long
term, I wish they would opensource the code. It's not my call since I don't
own the code. I may work on a replacement later in the summer, but it
wouldn't be ready until next year sometime.

WIRIS makes good products and has good people working for it, but they seem
to lack accessibility expertise and the accessibility of their products
besides MathPlayer is behind the times, often relying on alt text.

    Neil


On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 10:46 AM Susan Osterhaus <osterhauss at tsbvi.edu>
wrote:

> As you well know Neil, there is a need to update MathPlayer, so that some
> of
> us can use MathPlayer+MathType+NVDA with 64-bit MS Word. We are currently
> having to use MS Word 32-bit with our 64-bit computers. Is there anything
> that we can do to help support this going forward? Or maybe I should say to
> help support you? I did write a letter to WIRIS in regard to this, but I
> heard nothing back. Also, I'm still fine with Nemeth!
>
> Susan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindMath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Neil
> Soiffer via BlindMath
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2020 2:51 PM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Neil Soiffer <soiffer at alum.mit.edu>
> Subject: Re: [BlindMath] UEB braille display
>
> MathPlayer gets its braille via liblouis. Liblouis currently doesn't
> support
> UEB math. I believe that APH has done some work on UEB support and said
> they
> would contribute that back to liblouis at some point, but that hasn't
> happened yet. Trying to move this forward is on my todo list, but it is not
> near the top of my list at the moment.
>
>     Neil
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 6:47 AM Bill Dengler via BlindMath <
> blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> > MathPlayer sadly seems not to support UEB, just UK maths/Taylor. On my
> > device iOS renders the math in an unusual proprietary format. Would
> > also be very interested in a solution!
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Jun 3, 2020, at 09:34, Shannon Pruitt via BlindMath <
> > blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > I haven’t needed to work on this in awhile so I may be out of
> practice.
> > However, I have written some math in MathML and am trying to access
> > electronically on a braille display. I have tried using NVDA on my PC
> > as well as iOS.  However even when I choose UEB the math is showing up
> > in Nemeth. Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Shannon
> > >
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