Topic by aaron77 2021-04-06 19:42:01

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Anyone familiar enough with Mathematica to have come up with workarounds for the many accessibility issues that are present?
I quickly learned that the only way to work with it accessibly is through the kernel, which is fine, except that is still problematic because fractions, exponents, and a bunch of things are still not readable by Jaws or NVDA because they don't use / or ^ respectively.
Is there a config option somewhere that will make it output results in a more screen-reader friendly way?
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Reply by Ethin 2021-04-06 20:22:02

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Not that I could find when I tried it. There's the command-line tool, which might be the kernel your referring to. But other than that, getting it accessible was a challenge for me.

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Reply by aaron77 2021-04-06 22:06:21

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yep.  that is the kernel.
it works great for anything that doesn't involve math, ironically enough.

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