[NFB-Science] Accessible Math and Science content

[Kennedy Stomberg]

Good afternoon,  

I'm not sure how helpful I'll be, but I'll do my best. 
As I understand it, Ms Word has something for making math equations readable. John Miller, the president of the devision, will know more about that than me.  

I tend to use Braille, but I've done some math without it... It is tough, but it can be done. Assuming that your non-Braille readers use a screen reader, it might be helpful for them to do one of two things.  

1. Turn their punctuation setting to "All." This is anoying, but it will read every symbor, assuming equations don't come up as graphics. 
2.  Read equations or formulas character by character. Again, this will give you every symbol.  

I hope this was somewhat helpful! I'm sure others know WAY more about this than me, so hopefully, they'll chime in. Have you posted your question to the BlindMath mailing list (which can be found on NFBNET)? 

Thank you,  
Kennedy 

Kennedy Stomberg 
M.S. Program in Cognitive Neuroscience  
The Graduate Center, City University of New York  

365 5th Ave. New York, NY 10027  
Phone: (218)295--2391  

> On Jul 15, 2019, at 4:29 PM, Michael Ausbun via NFB-Science <nfb-science at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
>               Greetings Federation Family,
>               At work, I am working on a project right now, to ensure equal access for *all* people to our math content. We are an entirely online university. We have fairly consistent results rendering our math content into accessible electronic braille, but we are looking for a solution for those users who may not be braille readers or who are not strong braille users. Although we could provide readers (and have in the past), we would like to discover a consistent, accessible solution to allow screen readers to interpret and properly convey content of math equations to our students. Doing lots of research, I have found a lot of conflicting information, and I thought who better to ask than my federation family. Any suggestions would be highly valued!
>               As I understand it, the issue here seems to consistently be both user agent related or assistive technology related (inclusive disjunction, here).
> Respectfully,
> michael
> 
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> Michael Duane Ausbun, MA
> Specialist, Learning Experience,
> Universal Design and Accessibility Team
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