Re: [NVDA-dev] Fwd: NVDA and MathType equations

[Brian's M. l. a. B. <bg...@bl...>]

I've just been wondering what the issue is here. is it that the maths 
equations are  not giving accessible info via whatever method they are being 
displayed, ie is it a character set thing, or is it a picture of the 
equation?
 Surely this is something that might need looking at for nvda?

Brian

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Greer" <jp...@bl...>
To: "NVDA screen reader development" <nvd...@li...>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: [NVDA-dev] Fwd: NVDA and MathType equations


> It probably couldn't be made to see math equations by the time someone's 
> assignment is done, no. My question would be though, if the person is in 
> school wouldn't their blind services provide Jaws for them? Seems to me 
> that would be a logical need for Jaws. I also tested the same page by 
> using System Access and it didn't see it either. So as far as I know, is 
> there a free solution to this problem? I don't know of any that exist 
> right now.
>
> On 9/30/2011 3:55 AM, Kostadin Kolev wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm forwarding this letter to this list as well, after we had a 
>> discussion about it in the NVDA users list.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help given!
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Kostadin Kolev
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: NVDA and MathType equations
>> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:21:41 +0300
>> From: Kostadin Kolev <kos...@gm...>
>> To: nv...@fr...
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have the following situation:
>> 1. I have MS Word documents (.doc) with equations in them, witch were
>> written with MathType. Those are university lectures and were sent to me
>> by a teacher from the university in witch I study.
>> 2. I also have the "MathType" app itself, with witch I export the .doc
>> files to HTML documents. I export them to "MathML" format using
>> "MathPlayer". At that time that was the most acceptable solution for me.
>> 3. I read those HTML files with equations in them via Internet Explorer
>> (I had to install the "MathPlayer" IE plugin, in order to display the
>> equations correctly).
>> 4. At that time (2 or 3 years ago), I was using JAWS as my screen reader
>> and it was reading the equations in the HTML documents correctly.
>> 5. Now I need to re-read those documents. I have IE 9 and the newest
>> version of MathPlayer (v2.2) installed. But when I try to read the
>> equations using NVDA, it is not successful - it seams that NVDA is
>> reading the source code of the MathPlayer object, instead of the text
>> provided for accessibility purposes by MathPlayer, witch verbally
>> represents the equation. Actually, it seams that the equation is
>> partially read, but it is followed by a lot of junk text and I can't be
>> sure that the text read to me is the correct one. And another thing:
>> I've tested now how JAWS reads those equations and it reads them
>> correctly, as it did before. If you need equation samples to test this,
>> here are some:
>> http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/compare/mathplayer.htm
>> You need to open it in Internet Explorer and to have the "MathPlayer"
>> ActiveX plugin for it installed.
>>
>> If NVDA can't be made to support reading of equations represented by the
>> "MathPlayer", can you suggest me a solution? In MathType's tools there's
>> a option for converting from MathType to TeX/LaTex and vice versa. Could
>> this help?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Kostadin Kolev
>>
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