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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
2:16 AM
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Q: To what extent is Math.SE accessible to a blind user?

davidlowrydudaMy attention has recently been drawn to more questions about the accessibility of mathematics on the web. I've recently seen demos of a variety of screen readers interpret a variety of math-content on webpages. The task of parsing the representation of the math itself (i.e. parsing the MathJax/Ma...

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@davidlowryduda I assume that MathJax developers (Davide Cervone, Peter Krautzberger) might be able to say something about it.
I also remember Saaqib Mahmood who specifically mentions in his profile:
> I'm a visually impaired person and a student of mathematics, with particular interest in mathematical analysis, topology, functional analysis, abstract and linear algebra, complex analysis, graph theory, and number theory.
> Apart from mathematics, I'm also into Unified English Braille (UEB) and accessibility software like JAWS and ZoomText. Last year, I even started learning the Python programming language through the MIT OCW but just couldn't finish it through. I hope to be able to pick it up again soon. I aspire to be able to write customization scripts for JAWS and NVDA computer screen readers, the latter of which has been coded in Python.
Perhaps it might be worth pinging him to ask whether he has something to say about your question.
I also remember that Yemon Choi claimed to know a bit about accessibility. But he will not answer your question on this site, IIRC he deleted his account as an act of protest.
@DavideCervone in a "previous life" I looked at some aspects of web accessibility including screen readers, so point taken. My preference would be for R^4 without MathJax, by the way. — Yemon Choi Aug 19 '13 at 16:34
 
 
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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
8:12 AM
You wrote: " I've recently seen demos of a variety of screen readers interpret a variety of math-content on webpages." I guess this might be interesting for other users of this website, too. So if the stuff you've seen is available online, maybe you could share a link in your post. — Martin Sleziak 46 mins ago
@davidlowryduda Maybe I should add a minor clarification to the last comment. The sentence: "I've recently seen demos of a variety of screen readers interpret a variety of math-content on webpages." The sentence made me think that possibly this was some kind of presentation made at the university where you work and it is possible that the content is available in the single link.
It's quite likely that you search yourself for this stuff on the internet - which obviously anybody can do and which would at best result in a bunch of various links.
It this is the case, then my comment is basically irrelevant. (And perhaps I should have asked in chat instead, as not to leave additional noise on meta.)
In any case, I'll wait a bit to see your response.
 
 
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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
12:05 PM
See my answer here, @amWhy - it's possible, but it'd be a bit of work. Not just dev work, but a substantial amount of time and effort from the community on Math.SE. We should think very carefully before moving in that direction. — Shog9 ♦ May 8 at 22:14
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A: Triage and Help & Improvement review queues at sites other than Stack Overflow?

Shog9I'm glad you asked this. And I say this even though I can't answer it, which is unusual for me - I'm a narcissist and it really bugs me when I can't use someone else's question to show off my own smug self. But I am still a narcissist, so I'm gonna write like a page of explanation for why I can...

That post (from 2015) ends with:
> In short, I'm not yet sure if these queues make sense anywhere else. My gut feeling is that they'd be useful in some form on a few of the biggest sites - Super User, Ask Ubuntu, Mathematics, maybe even Server Fault if they can resist the urge to comment instead of editing... But first we have to make them work on Stack Overflow. If we can't do that... There's really not much point in trying to continue this experiment elsewhere.
 
 
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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
10:15 PM
@MartinSleziak Now it is more that 14 days old. So it will no longer by displayed in the community bulletin. My guess is that as a consequence, we will see less new activity on that question. (And even less after it moves from the frontpage - the most recent 15, 30 or 50 questions, depending on specific user's settings.)
 

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