- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:09:42 +1100 (AEDT)
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I think there is a need for the following: 1. An evaluation of MATHML to determine whether it provides the necessary semantic content to enable a reliable audio rendering to be produced. Modifications, if necessary, could presumably be discussed with the relevant groups within W3C. 2. The development of software that would accept MATHML as input and produce spoken output. T.V. Raman's Aster is the only working example of such an application so far as I am aware, and it is very impressive (unfortunately I have never had the opportunity to use the software, but I have heard an audio tape of the results). 3. Cooperation with developers of braille software, including the Maths project within the TIDE programme, that will lead to the construction of software for converting MATHML content into braille. Raised Dot Computing and Duxbury Systems, both in the U.S., have recently incorporated support for the North American braille mathematics code into their products. The Maths project supports the British and German codes. 4. The development of a scheme for embedding XML content in HTML documents, so that the mathematics can be fully integrated into the text, while retaining the necessary semantic value. 5. Implementation by authoring tools and browsers of MathML and the XML embedding scheme as mentioned above. Concretely, this would involve cooperation between the PF, UI and tool development activities of the WAI, as well as relevant groups within W3C. The TIDE programme's Maths project, as already mentioned, is relevant, I understand that the TIDE Maths project has also been considering SGML as an input format, but O do not know who is involved in this work.
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