[Nfb-science] reading equations

[Noble,Stephen L.]

Yes, this is certainly true. My reply responded to the original email question, which dealt with reading Microsoft Equation Editor and/or MathType equations within a Word document. Such equation formats are not currently accessible natively in Word. One may of course use other means such as LaTeX expressions within a Word document. Actually, if one knows LaTeX, for instance, one can easily use MathType to toggle back and forth between equation formats and LaTeX.

Steve Noble
steve.noble at louisville.edu
502-969-3088
http://louisville.academia.edu/SteveNoble

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From: Nfb-science [nfb-science-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Dr. Denise M Robinson [deniserob at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 3:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-science] reading equations

There are many ways to write and read math in word and have jaws read
it....here is a video of just a partial of what my students do...the first
part is emailing from word and the second part is getting advanced math
problems to read and to write them---they do very advanced math...actually
all of it in word--just turn on jaws attributes to read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQVP6dADd3w

*Dr Denise*

Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D.
CEO, TechVision, LLC
Specialist in Technology/Training/Teaching for blind/low vision
423-573-6413

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Noble,Stephen L. <
steve.noble at louisville.edu> wrote:

> You cannot currently read equations natively within a Word document. I do
> have a development version of Window-Eyes which will indeed do just that,
> but it was created for a research project and is not now commercially
> available. Currently, one has to use MathType and export the Word doc as
> HTML+MathML, using MathType's "publish to MathPage" function. One cannot
> save as XML from Word's "save as" menu; one has to use MathType's "publish
> to MathPage" utility. One that is done, the resulting HTML file will
> contain MathML for all the math equations, and assuming one has MathPlayer
> installed and opens the file with Internet Explorer, then JAWS or most
> other major screen readers will read the math.
>
> Steve Noble
> steve.noble at louisville.edu
> 502-969-3088
> http://louisville.academia.edu/SteveNoble
> ________________________________________
> From: Nfb-science [nfb-science-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Amy Bower
> [abower at whoi.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:10 PM
> To: nfb-science at nfbnet.org
> Cc: 'Bower, Amy'
> Subject: [Nfb-science] reading equations
>
> Hi All - I'm guessing this question would be better posted to the blind
> math
> list serve, but I don't belong to that and I'm hoping some of you will know
> how to direct me. I apologize in advance if the question has been covered
> recently or is common knowledge (except to me).
>
>
>
> I read some information on the Creative Designs web site about accessible
> math, and I got the impression that is possible for math equations to be
> read accurately by a screen reader. I'm hoping someone can direct me to a
> simple primer on how to set everything up to do this. For example, I have a
> MS Word 2010 document in which the author has inserted many equations using
> Microsoft Equation Editor, which I think is Mathtype. Do I just save this
> document as a .xml file? And then what?  I downloaded MathPlay, which seems
> to be a necessary component, but I don't get  how this all plays together
> with Jaws (the screen reader I'm using). A step-by-step list of what to do
> would be most appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Amy B.
>
>
>
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