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Math with Screen Readers (self.Blind)
submitted by rdutreix
Hello! Can anyone provide advice/solutions on making a screen reader work well with math equations? JAWS and NVDA won't read them on their own, so I have been trying to use MathType to make them accessible and then MathPlayer to have them read from the Word doc. MathType works really well. However, I have had nothing but headaches with MathPlayer. I am open to any ideas, I just need a way to have the equations read accurately. On another note, if anyone has advice on using a refreshable Brialle display for math, I would love to hear those ideas as well. Just really need someting, because while publishers claim to make accessible textbooks, they really are not for math. Thanks!
life_elsewhere 2 points 4y ago
Hi, this probably isn’t the answer you are looking for but I would recommend posting in the mathematics subreddit /r/math. It’s a big community so there’s a chance someone encountered the same frustrations as you did, or knows someone who did.
I’m a math student myself and I have to say that it never occurred to me how troublesome equations could be for blind and visually impaired people.
I’m a math student myself and I have to say that it never occurred to me how troublesome equations could be for blind and visually impaired people.
That_Dog_Nextdoor 1 points 4y ago
Also probably because. You usually do it on paper, because it is just so much faster than typing these types of things and usually you are looking at the whole thing at once to solve it. When being read to you that can already be more difficult.
As a chem student i know i probably wouldn't be able to solve the equations i am capable off and need to do if I was blind.
Math is very difficult if you can't see it, so developing a way to have it being read properly and in a way you can understand and learn from is extremely difficult. Let alone to make a computer program to do it.
As a chem student i know i probably wouldn't be able to solve the equations i am capable off and need to do if I was blind.
Math is very difficult if you can't see it, so developing a way to have it being read properly and in a way you can understand and learn from is extremely difficult. Let alone to make a computer program to do it.
retrolental_morose 1 points 4y ago
Both JAWS and NVDA can read MathML. So if you try reading in a web browser you may get further. :)
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