- From: Marc Haunschild <haunschild@mhis.onmicrosoft.de>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 06:44:52 +0000
- To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- CC: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
What about LaTEX - is this still an (accessible) option. I’ve to admit, the I never learned LaTEX… Marc > Am 02.07.2023 um 19:43 schrieb Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>: > > > > On 29/06/2023 20:53, Wayne Dick wrote: >> There is a prevalent but incorrect belief that mathematical formulas are images. Many web pages depict them as images. > > I've not heard of that "belief". What I do know is that due to lack of broad, consistent support for other ways of representing them (with MathML support etc having historically been very poor), authors have been forced to *use* images to represent them. > > So this gripe is less about "authors need to stop seeing formulae as images that have inherent 2-Dimensional meaning", but rather "authors should start to use other technologies, like MathML, SVG, etc, and make sure that they adapt to the available space". > > P > -- > Patrick H. Lauke > > https://www.splintered.co.uk/ | https://github.com/patrickhlauke > https://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | https://www.deviantart.com/redux > https://mastodon.social/@patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke >
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