[NFBCS] Accessible math content

[Willem Venter]

Aaron, you make a good point regarding the writing of math.
At university a friend and I used a LaTex-like language to write notes
and exam papers in a text-editor. We could not find a good way to get
math from print to something we could read and when writing, back into
a form that we could render electronicly. At first we had to
transcribe our tests before reading them, but later switched to
reading the LaTex sources of the paper. The resources to get math into
braille was simply not available.

All of this was about 10 years ago. I'll read any other information
with great interest.

Thank you
Kind regards
- Willem Venter

On 7/17/19, Aaron Cannon via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi. So I think that being a Braille reader and utilizing math content
> are likely not entirely independent variables. That being said, I
> agree that it is important to have solutions beyond Braille.
>
> What concerns me with MathML is that it is a system which is almost
> entirely designed to be consumed first. In other words, I may be able
> to read mathML with a good screen reader and browser, and perhaps a
> plugin, but writing it is a completely different matter. However,
> students need to be able to not only read math, but also to write it.
>
> When I was working on this problem for Instructure, for their Canvas
> LMS product, we allowed users to consume math content either in LaTex,
> or MathML. It was their choice. They could then give their answers in
> LaTex. This was all made possible, and far simpler than it should have
> been, thanks to the MathJax library.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Aaron
>
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