Tossing a #STEM #accessibility grumble out into the wild:

So apparently, even as #MathML support is improving at the browser level, in order to get #NVDA to _read_ math, you need to install #MathPlayer -- which is fine in and of itself, but it really bothers me that the MathPlayer webpage (https://info.wiris.com/mathplayer-info) says both "Accessibility for web environments using MathPlayer is limited to obsolete browsers such as Internet Explorer 8" and (in bold) "We are not actively developing MathPlayer."

It seems really odd for such a necessary tool to have such prominent warnings (but then, of course, there's an #XKCD for everything: https://xkcd.com/2347/). And nearly every instructional page I found while looking for information on MathPlayer references using it in Internet Explorer, which is now officially dead (and is actually being remotely disabled on people's machines, which seems rather draconian).

On the bright side, once MathPlayer is installed, NVDA seems to be able to read (properly MathML coded) math just fine, even in Chrome, which the MathJax documentation says doesn't work; probably due to recent MathML support improvements in Chrome.

Accessibility in general I'm really enjoying learning more about. STEM accessibility is giving me headaches.

OK, when does #nvdasr get rid of that ol' MathPlayer already?
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RT @zorkow
A New Year, an all new Speech Rule Engine https://speechruleengine.org
V4 release in #TypeScript with
* Support for Norwegian, Swedish, Catalan
* 2D Braille output
* New rules in YAML format
* and more

Supported by @texthelp @NumFOCUS @AAF_1919 @MathJax @idescat

#a11y #STEM
https://twitter.com/zorkow/status/1480599595516264452