- From: Alexey Beshenov <al@beshenov.ru>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:01:32 +0400
- To: "Elizabeth J. Pyatt" <ejp10@psu.edu>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 21:06, you wrote: > I hate to say it, but images with good ALT tags are probably the > safest bet...unless screen readers have improved a lot. Yes, but MathML is supposed to be the proper markup language. > When I was testing equations a few years ago, JAWS was saying > "question mark" for Unicode math symbols (e.g. theta), so I had a > perfectly encoded, standards-compliant Web site that was useless on a > screen reader. I haven't deeply tested MathML support in different oriducts, but, for example, Design Science plug-in for Microsoft Internet Explorer reads formulae pretty good. It means that it's not impossible to implement MathML in text-to-speech software. > Maybe you could use Math ML with hidden graphics with ALT tags if you > want to move ahead tech wise. I think that good idea is to work with MathML and produce images and/or human-readable alternative text for them with server-side XSLT. Let user choose. -- Alexey Beshenov <al@beshenov.ru> http://beshenov.ru/
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