[Blindmath] JAWS and Nemeth - Newbie question

[Andrew Stacey]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 05:34:03PM +0000, Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson wrote:
> What do people think about creating a web-based petition for screen
> reader vendors to add Nemeth support for refreshable braille?

This would also make it easier for sighted people to support you.  I don't
feel that I could email a company directly and say "Support maths in your
screen reader!" because I don't use a screen reader.  But I could sign
a petition that said something like "Making maths accessible is extremely
important and I support the petition to encourage companies to make their
screen readers work with mathematics.".

I suspect that you might get quite a bit of support from the wider mathematics
community for that - we're well aware of the inherent difficulties in
communicating mathematics and so are generally in favour of anything that
removes barriers that have no reason to be there.

Hmm, not sure if that makes sense.  What I mean is that we know well enough
that there are already massive barriers to making mathematics available to all
that where these barriers are external and have nothing to do with the
mathematics itself, then we're all the more ready to tear them down.

Andrew