Re: [Filter Effects][css3-transforms] Using MathML for formulas

Hi Davide,
I usually test with JAWS/Orca/NVDA/VoiceOver.

I am unsure about the suitability of aria relationship attributes in this
case as I mentioned in my reply to Cameron.
I am looking at methods to provide the prose form of the equations, I think
it is something that should be available to all users, but not displayed by
default.
I am considereing the use of the HTML5 figure element for the math
container and the details element to provide a container for the prose
form, will provide more details later, but this is an example:

<figure>
  <figcaption>caption for math</figcaption>
   <math>
<mrow>
        <mi>x</mi>
        <mo>=</mo>
        <mfrac>
          <mrow>
            <mo>-</mo>
            <mi>b</mi>
            <mo>±</mo>
            <msqrt>
              <mrow>
                <msup>
                  <mi>b</mi>
                  <mn>2</mn>
                </msup>
                <mo>-</mo>
                <mn>4</mn>
                <mi>a</mi>
                <mi>c</mi>
              </mrow>
            </msqrt>
          </mrow>
          <mrow>
            <mn>2</mn>
            <mi>a</mi>
          </mrow>
        </mfrac>
      </mrow>
      </math>

<details><summary>prose version of math</summary>
<p>(dummy text -hopefully content can be dynamically supplied via MathJax)
square root of, 1 + square root of, 1 minus x cubed, end root, end root</p?
</details>
 </figure>

If you are unfamiliar with the details element you can see how it works
here: http://mathiasbynens.be/demo/html5-details-jquery


regards
steve

On 5 June 2012 20:31, Davide P. Cervone <dpvc@union.edu> wrote:

> Steve:
>
> Can you say what readers you have experimented with?  I have used JAWS,
> Read&Write Gold, and Apple's VoiceOver.  VoiceOver has pretty good support
> for ARIA tags, JAWS seems to have some, an R&WG seems to ignore them
> entirely.  This is part of the reason for my original claim that screen
> readers vary widely in their implementation of the standards.  It is also
> part of the reason that it will be difficult to have a single static
> solution that works for all users, and why dynamic production of the markup
> by something like MathJax may be the best alternative in the short term
> (until there is better uniformity among AT software).
>
> Davide
>
>
> On May 30, 2012, at 2:21 AM, Steve Faulkner wrote:
>
> Hi Cameron,
>
> There is MathSpeak http://www.gh-mathspeak.com/examples/grammar-rules/
>
>
> in regards to adding ARIA to MathML, from limited testing I have conducted
> it does not work currently.
> I am guessing you are talking about adding it to the <math> element?
>
>
> regards
> Steve
>
> On 30 May 2012 01:48, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Do you know of any standards for the reading of math as a linear stream
>> of words?  In the meantime, before Peter's MathJax extension is ready, I
>> would like to just add some aria-label="" attributes manually to the MathML
>> in the SVG spec.  I could take a guess at what is an appropriate reading
>> for the formulae, but if there's a standard or guide for producing this I'd
>> like to follow it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Cameron
>>
>
>
>
>
>


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