- From: Neil Soiffer <soiffer@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 12:24:54 -0800
- To: "www-math@w3.org" <www-math@w3.org>
Received on Friday, 10 February 2023 20:25:17 UTC
I was part of a virtual STEM accessibility conference for the last two days. In the wrap up, a few people complained that there isn't a lot of consistency among AT. Some read one character ok (in MathML) and another won't read it. I'm not sure whether anyone complained about inconsistency with the speech other than dropping characters (JAWS seems to drop parens in many cases where it shouldn't) or speaking something ambiguously. I volunteered that our group was considering issuing some baseline guidance to AT as to minimal support they should have and people felt that was a good idea. This relates back to defaults. Whether we add something to spec in an appendix or produce a note, it seems like the AT users at least feel it would be a good idea to have some minimal baseline all AT should support. I suspect that it would also be helpful for AT developers so they know "this is the important part" -- don't skip support for these notations and these characters. Neil
Received on Friday, 10 February 2023 20:25:17 UTC