- From: Neil Soiffer <soiffer@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 17:10:43 -0700
- To: Chemistry CG <public-chem-web-pub@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAESRWkAAMoCUmZtu7t3pbk8H+svLkJGCKX20ga5ELxGGj8br+Q@mail.gmail.com>
In preparation for Thursday's meeting, I have updated https://nsoiffer.github.io/MathCATDemo/ to include my beta for speaking chemistry. Feel free to experiment with this page. I believe this page is accessible. This is a beta for chemistry and it hasn't gotten any outside testing, so please report bugs (there's a bug link at the bottom of the page). MathCAT goes to great lengths to try and infer Chemistry in the absence of author intent being specified. This means it may miss seeing something as chemistry or might infer chemistry when it isn't. I have tuned the internal threshold for "is this chemistry" so H20 barely triggers it; O2 will not trigger chemistry speech. Again, if you see something where MathCAT gets it wrong and you think that's a mistake, please enter a bug report. For those of you who know TeX's mhchem package, that is probably the easiest way to enter a formula for testing. E.g., enter "$\ce{H2O}$" for water. But if you don't care about italics, $H_2O$ will work also. For chemical elements such as helium, MathCAT is currently emitting "H" and not "cap h". If you are using NVDA to listen, Settings:Speech:say cap for capitals will cause it to say "cap h". I believe there is a similar option for JAWS. In the past some people were insistent that chemistry speech should always say "cap". If that remains the case, I can add an option to MathCAT to control that. I also added a nuclear decay example to the sample speech doc <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yjNc1rY3q73Cf1UKPVsnhG0AXjJCu4M8dXAUJdBpRic/edit#>. I look forward to talking with everyone on Thursday, Neil
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