Re: accessible math
- From: Jim Dunleavy <jim.dunleavy@xxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:38:16 +0000
Hi,
I wouldn't care as long as there is an option to see the original
Math Latex.
If I remember correctly, Wikipedia does that.
--Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:27 PM
Subject: Fw: accessible math
Hi,
Can someone please help this person? This could potentially help some people.
Jim
James D Homme, Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc., james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
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"Maldonado, Jill" <jmaldonado@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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11/20/2008 11:16 AM
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Subject accessible math
I am a web producer for The College Board. The College Board is a
not-for-profit membership association whose mission is to connect students to
college success and opportunity. We are always trying to improve the
accessibility of our web site and have recently started using Math Latex to
generate math images for the sample PSAT questions we post on our site.
My question to you is, does it make any difference if all the values and
variables and symbols are images as long as they are alt-tagged? For instance,
there may be cases where we would use Math Latex to generate an image for "-2",
so that we can alt-tag it as "negative 2" and then in that context we might
also use Math Latex to generate an image for "2", so we can provide visual
consistency for other users (since of course the numbers that are images LOOK
different from the numbers that are not).
In your opinion, should we avoid using images for math equations unless we
absolutely need to, or is it okay as long as everything is alt-tagged?
I thank you for your help!
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