I think Fred's point here was that the literal text in the MathML or LaTeX is not what a blind person wants to hear. The whole point of math as a 2-D notation is that the relative position of the parts of the equation carry meaning. This is unlike normal text which almost always carries its whole message in its words and punctuation.
On Tuesday, May 7, 2013 1:59:17 PM UTC-7, Trevor Saunders wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:13:04AM -0700, fred.wang... wrote: > > > - For blind people or other visual disabilities, speech synthesizer must > > follow the MathSpeak rules. Simply reading the text "normally", e.g. of a > > LaTeX or ASCII source, is ambiguous. > > > > I'd argue that any machine parsable format can't be ambiguous by virtue > > of the fact machines parse it. However in any case AtkText / > > IAccessibleText / the mac accessible protocol thing all expect the text > > for an object to be a string so whatever format the web uses screen > > readers will be handling a serialized format. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
