Math Accessibility

Mathematics, the complex science that studies numbers and shapes. This subject raises many (sometimes still unsolved) challenges when it comes to making its content (e.g. formulas) accessible. Yet various standards and supporting tools that can help you have been developed: in this section you can find them!

Resources

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Stories of Web Users

Vincenzo Rubano
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Imagining how people with disabilities use the Web and mobile devices can be hard. Reading all those standards, guidelines, specifications, tutorials and whatnot can be daunting, especially if you cannot make sense of the reason why your web content, mobile or desktop applications must satisfy certain requirements.

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Diverse Abilities and Barriers

Vincenzo Rubano
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This informative document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) explores the wide diversity of people and abilities, illustrating conditions that people with disabilities may face while using your products and services (websites, mobile or desktop applications, etc.

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Bring Accessibility to Charts in Your Apps (WWDC 2021)

Vincenzo Rubano
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In this video from Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2021 you can find out how you can make charts accessible in your iOS, TV OS, Watch OS and Mac OS apps to people with vision impairments through audio graphs and data sonification.

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LaTeXML - the Manual

Vincenzo Rubano
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This is the official manual of LaTeXML, a command line tool that can be used to convert LaTeX documents into HTML pages, MathML, ePub or other web-based formats.

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Latex2html

Vincenzo Rubano
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LaTeX2HTML is a command line tool that allows you to convert LaTeX documents into their equivalent HTML representation. It extracts key components from the LaTeX document (section titles, text, figures, table of contents, etc.

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LaTeXML

Vincenzo Rubano
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LaTeXML is a command line tool that can be used to convert TeX or LaTeX documents into a variety of web page formats including (but not limited to) HTML, MathML and ePub.

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Accsupp

Vincenzo Rubano
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Accsupp is an experimental package that provides a low level interfaces for programmers to tag page fragments in PDF documents to improve their accessibility. In other words, it helps making PDF documents generated from LaTeX sources compliant with PDF/UA, and therefore accessible!

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Axessibility

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Axessibility is an experimental LaTeX package whose goal is to help authors generate accessible PDF documents from their LaTeX files. It has been designed as an ongoing research project by the Math department at University of Torino, Italy.

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Tagpdf

Vincenzo Rubano
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As its author defines it, tagpdf is “a package to experiment with tagging with PDFLatex and LuaLatex”. It provides low level commands to make these compiler output appropriate “tags” within PDF documents in order to make them compliant with PDF/UA (and therefore accessible!

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Ascii MathML

Vincenzo Rubano
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Asciimathml is a tiny JavaScript library that can be loaded within any web page to convert any Math formulas written using the AsciiMath syntax into its MathML equivalent.

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