[Nfb-science] reading equations

Thu May 16 21:08:25 UTC 2013

Yes, it is "accessible enough" to do so, though the application needs more work to be fully accessible. John Gardner, who is a blind physicist, put together a nice "how to" article about how to do this. You can find it here: http://www.access2science.com/jagqn/WordLatex.html

--Steve Noble
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Is MathType accessible enough that one can convert a MathTyped  doc to Latex via  ScreenReader access?

-Kevin

On May 16, 2013, at 3:52 PM, "Noble,Stephen L." <steve.noble at louisville.edu> wrote:

> 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
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> 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
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> *Dr Denise*
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> Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D.
> CEO, TechVision, LLC
> Specialist in Technology/Training/Teaching for blind/low vision
> 423-573-6413
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> 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
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>> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:10 PM
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>> 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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