{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"26389499","dateCreated":"1282843348","smartDate":"Aug 26, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"afwings","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/afwings","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1247678164\/afwings-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/onlinemathematicsaccess.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/26389499"},"dateDigested":1532428547,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"HTML5 and MathML: Internet Explorer 9 is Broken","description":"I have some good news and some bad news. First, the good news is HTML5 includes MathML and has been embraced by all browser vendors. Now the bad news. MathML support is broken in IE9 and we see no evidence that Microsoft will fix this problem unless they are made to understand how important MathML support is to the eLearning and STEM communities. MathML is also an important key to insuring math accessibility to the blind and sight-impaired, as well as those with certain learning disabilities. While we applaud Microsoft for promising to support HTML5 with Internet Explorer 9, we hope that you will join us in encouraging them to fix the small bug that is currently preventing MathML from working in HTML5 pages. Please publicize the issue with whatever resources you have: personal blogs, tweets, forum posts, comments on other people's blog posts, etc.
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\nRead the full story: http:\/\/www.dessci.com\/en\/products\/mathplayer\/tech\/MathMLinHTML5.htm<\/a>.
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\nThanks,
\nBob Mathews
\nDesign Science","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"13316679","dateCreated":"1248423450","smartDate":"Jul 24, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"colinmca","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/colinmca","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/onlinemathematicsaccess.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13316679"},"dateDigested":1532428548,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Is it OK to use plain text math?","description":"Is it OK to use plain text math e.g. sqrt(5^3)?
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\nThat's common practice in the most active math forums, e.g. on the Orkut.com communities. I believe that the practice became common due to programming languages like Fortran and Algol in the 1970's and earlier. The caret "^" and slash "\/" are two of the ASCII characters that are useful in representing algebra in plain text documents. Most web sites support Unicode characters, but the habit of using only the ASCII subset is still strong. The "Less Than" symbol "<" may pose a problem, for example in discussions on the Hi5.com social network, where it is interpreted as HTML markup. It can be encoded as &#60;. (If you are going to explain that to someone on a web page, you need to encode the ampersand too, which is &#38; in HTML markup.)","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"13313865","dateCreated":"1248406881","smartDate":"Jul 23, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"colinmca","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/colinmca","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/onlinemathematicsaccess.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13313865"},"dateDigested":1532428548,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Personal Introductions","description":"Hello, I'm Colin, a Software Engineer lecturing in Computer Science in Malaysia. I have checked many social networks, and found that they do not offer good support for technical discussions. Nevertheless maths discussions thrive among students on the Orkut.com and Friendster.com social networks, which only offer plain text dialog.
\nEmail: colin dot mcallister@ymail.com<\/a>","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"13311923","dateCreated":"1248398572","smartDate":"Jul 23, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"colinmca","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/colinmca","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/onlinemathematicsaccess.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13311923"},"dateDigested":1532428548,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Considerations for impaired vision or hearing?","description":"Our answers to this question are hypothetical, until we have the opinions of people who who have impaired vision or hearing. Some social networks support images in discussions, e.g. Ning.com sites. That is a problem, because images embedded in the dialogue are not accessible to people who are blind or have low-vision, or by any screen reading software that they use. Images are used for explanatory diagrams, or to present equations that have been rendered using an online equation editor. Just as Google added an audio alternative to the visual CAPTCHA, , content creators need to add descriptive text to supplement all of the images that they use. More educational content is being create as video on Youtube or audio podcasts. Obviously, that content needs to have subtitles, sign language or transcription to be accessible to people with impaired hearing.
\nRef: Google Releases Audio CAPTCHA, http:\/\/www.accessibilityblog.com\/2006\/04\/11\/google-releases-audio-captcha\/<\/a>","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"13311543","dateCreated":"1248396614","smartDate":"Jul 23, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"colinmca","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/colinmca","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/onlinemathematicsaccess.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13311543"},"dateDigested":1532428548,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"What sites support math conversation?","description":"What social networks and virtual worlds are more supportive of math conversation?
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\nBlackboard and Moodle for course management have equation editing tools.
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\nZoho Writer for online word processing has an equation editing tool.
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\nThe Wordpress and Movable Type blogging platforms support equation rendering, by the installation of extensions on the host blog.
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\nMathematics CyberBoard http:\/\/www.sosmath.com\/CBB\/<\/a> include equations that are entered as LaTeX and embedded as images within the text.
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\nThe Thesaurus of mathematical terms http:\/\/thesaurus.maths.org\/<\/a> uses Java for graphics. Browsing the site with Firefox, it uses MathML for equations. Browsing with Internet Explorer, it requires the free MathPlayer plugin; as described on the the Help Page.
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\nSocial Networks on Ning.com support one or multiple images embedded in discussion text. With the assistance of online equation editors, that is good support for discussing mathematics.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"13318773","body":"There are many many others -- too many to list here -- but here are some:
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