[Nfb-science] WinTriangle

[Mark Stimson]

Hi Christine,
This is a very interesting question.  I am fairly unfamiliar with
WinTriangle, I've only worked with it a little bit.  I have never met anyone
else who has used it, and have only heard about it in public at the last
CSUN.  

Answer #1: you can read equations just like words with JAWS, use Ctrl +
right arrow to read the entire equation, and just the right-arrow to read a
character at a time.  

Answer #2: I don't know, but I highly doubt it would go as low as JAWS v4.5;
in fact I would be very weary of using v6 or under.  

Answer #3: the end-user will need to install WinTriangle program and the
fonts.  Furthermore, sighted users who are not using JAWS will still need to
install the WinTriangle fonts (which can really stink).

Answer #4: the program does read Greek symbols accurately.

By the way, for mathematics, I and other people I know use MathType.  It
works very well with Jaws (as long as they are fairly recent versions), and
does require the end-user to have a free download of MathType to read the
symbols with JAWS.  Are you familiar with MathType?

Best regards, Mark

Mark Stimson, Ph.D.
Accessibility Specialist
www.DocumentAccessibility.com
www.AccessIngenuity.com



-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-science-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-science-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Christine Szostak
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 7:44 PM
To: nfb-science at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfb-science] WinTriangle

Hi All,
  I was wondering if anyone knows of a product known as WinTriangle, sorry
if misspelled or mistitled. I tend to read a lot of articles/texts that have
fair to heavy amounts of equations.
I have a few specific questions:

1)  Is it possible to read specific portions of the equation or does the
program only allow the entire equation to be read at once?
2)  Does the program work with old versions of JAS (e.g., 4.51 and below)?
3)  If switching to a computer that has JAWS but does not have WinTriangle,
will the equations be at all accessible to JAWS?
4(  Does the program read things such as Greek symbols accurately and is
there a way to change how such things are read? For instance, if some
notation is identified by an uncommon name in a specific discipline, is
there a way for the JAWS user able to change how the notation is read?

Many thanks in advance,
Christine
Christine M. Szostak
Graduate Student
Language Perception Laboratory
Department of Psychology, Cognitive Area
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
szostak.1 at osu.edu
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