On 7/1/07, Mov GP 0 movgp0@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I've encountered that texvc is not doing conversion to MathML - at least I've never seen MathML in Wikipedia. This has some drawbacks:
- its not as accessible, because blind users will have to read TeX code.
- its not scaleable
- its not linkable
There was (is?) a project to allow MathML to work properly. However, needless to say, it cannot be turned on by default until there's quite a lot more common MathML support than there is presently. So most viewers will not see any benefit from linking or annotation, and there is not a terrible lot of impetus for anyone to work on this for the next, say, five years. But this is open-source and if anyone wants to, they can feel free. I'm sure commit access could be arranged.
(Incidentally, I find it hard to believe that MathML is more accessible than images. Are there any screen-readers that understand MathML? Our alt text for the images sucks, but at least it's there for people who speak TeX.)