This GitHub repository is focused on advancing the reading and writing of mathematics for persons with disabilities. Blind and low vision users are the target audience. We will work to make sure the Reading Systems, browsers, and authoring tools perform as expected. We will engage with the authoring tool , Reading Systems, and Assistive Technology (AT) developers to improve the experience.
In addition, we will identify the training and support materials needed for end users to advance their skills in mathematics. Where these resources already exist, we will reference them. When there are materials not available, we will create those resources.
We plan to collaborate with other groups working on the advancement of mathematics for persons with disabilities.
We are using a DAISY mailing list for our communications.
Email list is: math@daisylists.org
We are also using a SharePoint folder for documents. Members can request this link.
We plan to work on a number of projects associated with the reading and writing of math. We will list them here:
We are collaborating with developers at Microsoft: Project: Digital Math in Microsoft Word 365 Accessibility
If you are posting a message to the mailing list and want to focus on this project, please begin the email's subject line with "[MS-Math]"
The Daisy/math A11y subgroup is discovering issues with the Microsoft Equation Editor, and those issues will go through a process described below:
- The issue is discovered and submitted on the Issues page for our group.
- Another person verifies that the issue exists for them as well.
- Depending on what the issue is, it is reported to
- Microsoft eDAD
- Freedom Scientific, or submitted to the MathCat GitHub.
##Discussions
Various topics are discussed on the mailing list, on conference calls, and on the discussion list in the repo.
Discussion list on GitHub repo
Please join on discussions or create a new topic. Discussion topics may lead to an issue being created.