Wink Harner, Assistive Technology Consultant, The Foreign Type
Disability Area: Topic Area:
Length of Session (in hours): 2-hr
Format: Lab
Expertise Level: Intermediate
Type of session: General Conference
Summary of Session
Present & train participants in 3 input methods to create accessible math for JAWS/NVDA & TTS users, plus how to produce multiple different outputs including HTML, LaTeX, MathML, HTML-Flex using a variety of browsers. Using MSWord, MathType, MathPlayer, Central Access Reader, CAT Tools, OmniPage, IE Enterprise 8, JAWS 16 and NVDA Math Build.
Abstract
Keypoints
Learn how to use MS Word & MathType to create moderately complex math equations.
Converting a MSWord doc using OCR (Omnipage), using MathType and editing equations with free CAR tools
How to produce HTML, HTML-Flex, MathML, LaTeX, Nemeth, JAWS + IE, NVDA + Firefox, NVDA + MathPlayer docs
Speaker Bio(s)
Wink Harner
Wink Harner - Has been an active member of ATHEN for 25 years and is currently serving on the Executive Board as Member-At-Large. Wink was invited as the keynote speaker for the 2019 Texas AHEAD conference. She is the former director of disability services at Mesa Community College in Arizona, the Adaptive Technology Specialist for the DR office at Southern Oregon University, and currently works in freelance adaptive technology consulting and provides specialized alternative text conversions in math, sciences and foreign languages. She has been a professor of multiple languages for more than 25 years. Since August 2016, Wink developed and taught the adaptive technology in higher education core course for CUNY's Masters of Science in Disability Studies Program.
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