[Xerte-dev] Re: Maths

[Pat @ Pgogy]

Wasn't stonewalling - just pre-empting

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On 22 Apr 2013, at 17:14, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:

> My assessment would be that this provides wider accessibility e.g. for sighted users and general clarity and usability including ease of use for authors and for screenreader users it would be easy to include or link to the kind of description you would put as alt text if the Mathjax functionality doesn't provide the equivalent of that.
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> Ron
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> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
> Sent: 22 April 2013 15:56
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> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Maths
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> What would be considered more accessible:
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> ·        this using fonts which do scale but don’t have alt text or
> ·        an image with alt text=”x equals negative b plus or minus square root of etc, etc”  which can be read out?
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> Just curious.
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> John Smith
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> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 3:44 PM
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> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Maths
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> Well, I’m sure Alistair would agree that it would be better to do something that is of limited accessibility to some, but of great use to many, rather than do nothing, with no benefit to anyone. But he would encourage us to find ways to make it accessible if it were possible…
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> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
> Sent: 22 April 2013 15:37
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> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Maths
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> Well, it should be a lot more accessible then the previous solution, as it is displayed using fonts in stead of generating an image. So you can also zoom in, etc.
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> But I don't know what a screen reader makes of this.
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> It the moment it uses a link to a website maintained by MathJax. It is not pure Javascript. There is a whole engine behind it apparently. You can install it locally (the installer is 16.7 Mb).
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> Tom
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> Op 22-4-2013 16:30, Pat @ Pgogy schreef:
> Cool - how accessible is it?
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> Why doesn't it work off line?
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> On 22 Apr 2013, at 15:28, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:
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> Like I tried to explain in a different e-mail...
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> - Based on MathJax (http://www.mathjax.org, as found by Pat)
> - Only works in Javascript/HTML5
> - Doesn't interfere with previous solution
> - Like previous solution, doesn't work off-line
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> Tom
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> Op 22-4-2013 16:17, Julian Tenney schreef:
> I think that would be a big step forward, nice one. This has been a  longstanding problem,
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> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
> Sent: 22 April 2013 15:15
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> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Maths
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> What do you think?
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