Re: Formula

1) Yes you should provide a text based description for accessibility. 
Since this is a complex formula, you may want to do it as a longdesc 
or provide a link to the text description. The Alt Tag could be just 
be the the name of the formula (e.g. "Saftey Stock Formula - See text 
description"

For the longdesc, the safest option is to spell out each word. For 
instance, don't say "sin(t)" which would probably be read "cint or 
sintee", but "sine of t"

See http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/accessibility/math.html for 
additional examples.

2) I would avoid MathML in general since it is poorly supported on 
the Mac (sigh). MathML also requires users to have special plug-ins 
and browsers, and I have no idea how a screen reader would handle 
them.

Elizabeth Pyatt

>Hi,
>
>How do I implement accessibility for mathematical formula without 
>MathML? Do I need to spell out the formula in the alternate text? 
>What is the correct way to create an alternate text of a complex 
>formula, like the following:
>
>
>
>
>
>Many thanks,
>Budy
>
>
>Content-Type: image/jpeg;
>	name="image001.jpg"
>Content-ID: <image001.jpg@01C5048D.163614B0>
>Content-Description: image001.jpg
>Content-Location: image001.jpg
>
>Content-Type: image/jpeg;
>	name="image002.jpg"
>Content-ID: <image002.jpg@01C5048D.163614B0>
>Content-Description: image002.jpg
>Content-Location: image002.jpg


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