Section3Resources for Teachers

Subsection3.1General Method

Three ways that accessible mathematics can be created is

  • Creating a webpage with MathML or MathJax.
  • Using . Here one can convert the soure to an HTML document containing MathML or MathJax.
  • Microsoft Word using Math Type to insert mathematical expressions. The reader uses MathPlayer.

[I guess that one here might have a more detailed description of the workflow for each of these approaches. Or maybe this is contained in a more detailed description of each of the tools?]

Keep the source code

Since a document isn't always immediately accessible a conversion process is often needed. Because of this it is essential that you have access to the original course file for the content/document that you created. It is important that you are willing to share this with whomever is doing the conversion.

Subsection3.2Specific tools

[Here could be a discussion of specific tools

  • Microsoft Word
  • PowerPoint
  • LibreOffice / OpenOffice
  • Ximera (an improvement over tex4ht)
  • LaTeXML

While there is a more general discussion above, maybe it makes sense to still address specific tools?]

Subsection3.3Other formats than written

[Maybe here a subsection on producing other content like videos and graphs.]

Videos

[Maybe here a discussion of best practices for producing videos with math. For example, videos for online classes.

  • Subtitling is important
  • Providing a transcript is helpful (could transcript be HTML + MathJax?)
  • Proving optional voice over
  • Guidance on how best to speak in a video
Graphs

Subsection3.4MathJax

MathJax is a tool for putting math content into a web page. The web page source has math written using one of a few standard “code” formats. MathJax will scan the page looking for that math code, and intervene to render that code differently. A sighted user should see nicely printed math. All users will have the ability to enlarge the math, highlight it in portions, and have screen readers speak the math in various ways.

Subsubsection3.4.1