[BlindMath] Reading Math with NVDA

[Shannon Pruitt]

Neil,

Thanks for creating MathCat. Been using it with students and is working great!

Shannon 

> On Jan 24, 2023, at 7:45 PM, Neil Soiffer via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Based on what you wrote, I am guessing that the problematic content was
> written in MathML and that you are using MathPlayer for your math reading
> experience. If that is true and you want to continue using MathPlayer:
> 1. open up the windows control panel
> 2. in the search panel (I think it opens with the focus in the search
> panel), type MathPlayer and then open it
> 3. in the subject area drop down of the MathPlayer control panel, select
> "Probability & Statistics"
> 4. under "Speech for chemical formulas" in the MathPlayer control panel,
> choose the "Off (H sub 2 O)" radio button
> 5. click "ok"
> 
> This should remove the chemistry interpretation and add some specialized
> speech for statistics.
> 
> You can also switch to using the MathCAT or Access8Math addons. I don't
> believe either of them will generate chemistry speech. As the author of
> MathCAT (and also MathPlayer), I can say the next MathCAT update does
> support chemistry but is much better at distinguishing between chemistry
> and math and won't make that mistake. Like MathPlayer, MathCAT also has an
> option to turn off chemistry speech (accessible from the NVDA settings menu
> if MathCAT is installed) in case it is overly aggressive at guessing that
> something is chemistry. The next update of MathCAT is "any week now", but
> sadly that's been true for about two months as I add tweaks and work with
> translators for Vietnamese and Indonesian translations.
> 
> MathCAT currently has little to no rules for specialized speech for
> statistics. I would be grateful if you or anyone else would file issues on
> github <https://github.com/NSoiffer/MathCAT/issues> listing notations you
> would like to hear pronounced better, whether it is statistics or anything
> else. Adding speech for various topic areas will likely be a focus for
> MathCAT improvement later in the year.
> 
> Neil Soiffer
> 
>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 2:20 PM Nicholas J via BlindMath <
>> blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I want to use NVDA with statistical content in statistics courses. It
>> reads most things well. In a few places, it reads P(h) as phosphorous
>> open paren hydrogen close paren. Are there any settings in NVDA that
>> would make it read statistical content and other math correctly?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Nicholas
>> 
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