Strategies for Math & Science Accessibility

Ron StewartAccess Technology

Instructor High Tech Training Center Unit California Community Colleges

MathType

MathType is an equation editor for MS Office

Allows equations to be entered into MS Word documents much like the Equation Editor

Document with equations can be exported as:Web page with MathMLImages (.GIF)TeX/LaTeX

MathPlayer

MathType provides export option to create Web pages from MS Word

Exported Web pages may contain equations presented as images OR MathML

Web pages and equations can be viewed in either Firefox or Internet Explorer (requires MathPlayer)

Infty Reader

OCR application that recognizes STEM documents into editable content

Can convert to LaTeX, MathML, and XHTML

Recognized content may be exported to MS Word 2003/2007 for additional editing

Infty Editor & Chatty Infty

Infty Editor is an authoring tool for math expressions

Chatty Infty is an extension of Infty Editor that provides speech output of math content

Assistive Technologies

Screen-ReaderDolphin Supernova, Freedom Scientific

JAWS, GW Micro Window-Eyes, NVDA

Screen-MagnificationZoomText 9, MAGic with Speech, Supernova

Reading SystemsDolphin EasyTutor, TextHelp Read & Write

Gold (Windows), Claro Read (Windows), Kurzweil 3000 (Windows), WYNN

Sample Workflow

Create or edit the equations in MS Word using MathType

Export as a Web page using the Publish to MathPage functionChoose MathML exportSelect XHTML+MathML

View the page in the appropriate browser

MathDAISY

Component for Save As DAISY add-in

Converts MathType equations into DAISY compatible format

Requires DAISY reader that supports MathML

Thank you

Ron StewartAccess Technology Instructorrstewart@htctu.net