On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:07:18PM -0500, Seth Gordon wrote:
P. R. Stanley wrote:
I'm referring to math symbols which do not get successfully translated into an intelligible symbol in the screen reader browse buffer.
Is there a way to make the symbols both look right on a screen and sound right from a screen reader?
yes, by employing document translation this is often the purpose of employing docbook or another document-oriented schema - you down-translate into xhtml, pdf, ascii, etc these down-translations can often be performed with available tools down-translating for a screen reader implies maintaining some sort of association of entities to literal chars/phrase etc. its likely that users of these screen readers know the capabilities of the tools and are likely best to provide this function removing all glyphs which cannot come out of a screen reader is not a viable solution - xhtml markup adds real value for 99.9% of users.