[WG: Accessibility] Fwd: [Using Sakai] fMath or MathJax? Why I'm thinking MathJax...

Neal Caidin neal.caidin at apereo.org
Mon Jul 8 04:48:11 PDT 2013


Hi Accessibility group,

Is anyone familiar with Accessibility friendliness of fMath (currently in Sakai CLE 2.9) and MathJax (being considered by the Samigo team)?

Thanks,
Neal Caidin

Sakai CLE Community Coordinator


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Mark J. Norton" <markjnorton at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] fMath or MathJax? Why I'm thinking MathJax...
> Date: July 8, 2013 7:39:10 AM EDT
> To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
> 
> On 7/5/2013 4:16 PM, Keli Sato Amann wrote:
>> fMath is a Flash plug-in for CKEditor. It brings up a WYSIWYG editor that lets you create an image of your equation
> I wonder how accessible this is.  Modern screen readers have support for 
> reading MathML expressions, but they have a hard time with images, 
> unless the alt text was VERY detailed.
> 
> - Mark
> 
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