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Dear friends, screen reader users, teachers and assistants.
I am trying to find out what tools can I use to create math content. I know #mathml is supported accross variety of screen readers and browsers but that seems to be only one side of the puzzle and that is reading.
How do I as a student collaborate on math content with my teacher and the other way round, how do I as a teacher create accessible math assigments for my student allowing them to complete it with a screen reader?

For this answer let's explore that both student and teacher are blind or visually disabled or teacher is sighted, student is blind. How to collaborate?

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Timothy Wynn

When I was in college over a decade ago, I used MathType Equation Editor to convert from Microsoft's equation objects to and from LaTeX. Hopefully there are good options now, especially since mathematics wasn't even my field back then.

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Elijah Massey

@kaveinthran I often just use LaTeX. I create a Markdown file, and type math as LaTeX surrounded by dollar signs. Then I convert to Word or PDF (Word converts the math to a format blind students can read). In Microsoft Office, Word math is spoken well and displayed in Braille for both JAWS and NVDA, and to type math in Microsoft Word, there are autocorrect commands that you can use to type symbols, mostly based on LaTeX commands, or there is a mode where you can type LaTeX directly and it will convert to Word math. You can also use the JAWS Braille math editor; you type in Nemeth, and it inserts your equation into a Word document as Word math. It is a lot easier if you have a Braille display, but you can also use the QWERTY keyboard, if you type in Nemeth using reverse computer Braille. For example, the equals sign in Nemeth is dots 4-6, dots 1-3. To type this, you would type period then k, since period is dots 4-6 in computer Braille and k is dots 1-3. You could also buy a Monarch or BrailleSense 7, since their word processors support typing and reading Word math as Nemeth, although sometimes KeyWord on the Monarch is buggy and slow with math, and I haven't tested math input very much on the BrailleSense. You could also buy a BrailleNote Evolve, since it lets you type Nemeth into Word documents, if you are willing to accept the trade-offs of that device.
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