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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Ascii Math

Vincenzo Rubano

· October 18, 2021

Quoting its official website, “AsciiMath is an easy-to-write markup language for mathematics”. While it is not (and probably will never become so) an official standard, its syntax is very well described, yet allows for enough flexibility to act as a “de-facto” standard for concisely and effectively representing math formulas.

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KaTeX

Vincenzo Rubano

· October 18, 2021

KaTeX is an alternative framework that offers “fast Math typesetting for the Web”. While not being as feature-rich as MathJax, according to its authors it is significantly faster and lighter.

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MathJax

Vincenzo Rubano

· October 18, 2021

Promising “Beautiful math in all browsers”, MathJax is a framework capable of providing highly accurate (or maybe, as accurate as it can get) typesetting for Math formulas within web browsers.

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