Category: Cram Session
I thought about putting this in the accessible electronics section, but this is a question pertaining to school, so what the heck ..,
Have any of you heard of or used this program? I need to know if it's acessible with JAWS or not.
I believe Juan uses it, and from what he's told me its great. I'll pass this along to him.
math type... is for entering equations on programs that support it. I use it with word... though there are a few drawbacks:
1. You can enter math (preferably use it with radicals and complex expressions) and then save it to a word document. To ahve jaws read it though, you need to grab math player which is free and you can obtain from their site, then export your word document into an html page that uses the math player behavior (this is done from within word). Then the math is of course read outloud accurately to you.
2. Jaws will not read when editing the math.
On the brighter side, much of the interface for the math type program is accessible, and all symbols that you click ahve a corresponding keyboard shortcut.
If it seems that typing math in a way that you cannot get to hear it (only after you've processed it through math player), then I suggest you go back and use LaTeX. Of course math type has too support for LaTeX, though coding is a more viable interface for see exactly what you're going to get as an output, though LaTeX is a typesetting language and so of course it will be somewhat of a steep learning curve. Anyway, good luck with any of the math-related courses.
Thank you for the input. Will it work with JAWS versions nine and ten? one computer at school has JAWS nine and my laptop's running ten. Oh, and they both have windows vista.
still no more responseso n tihs subject since the last time I checked? anymore input on using this with JAWS? is there somewhere i can look for an audio tutorial of it or something?
Try googling it? I havent' heard of math type before. Only scientific notebook. Is it like the same thing?