Accessible Math Content Word 2010 and Math Type

It's easy tor create accessible Math with MathType and Word. Bente Casile, Accessible Math Advocate/Guru demonstrates.

Today we are going to look at

how to create accessible Math content

using MathType.

MathType is actually a program

that comes into your Microsoft Word window

as part of your ribbon.

So what you first do is open up

a Microsoft Word document,

and then we are going to click on MathType.

Notice when we click on MathType,

we are going to get a new ribbon here

and what we want to do is...

we want to insert an equation,

so I am going to go up

and click on Inline

and Inline is going to give us the ability

to put an equation into our document.

Once I do that, my MathType

Math editing window comes up

and I am able to type in whatever I want

and there is also all of the mathematical symbols

that we would need to create anything

from Algebra up through Calculus.

So I am going to start with something very simple.

I am just going to do a simple quadratic,

and I don't need to use the spacebar at all,

because MathType automatically

formats everything for me.

So I am just going to keep typing.

So I will type three x, and now

I want to put a power

on that expression so I noticed

my blinking curser is around the three x

I am going to come up here into my bar

and select this button right here

because you can see that is going to give me

the ability to put in an exponent.

Once I do, my blinking cursor has left my three x

and now comes up into the position

so that I can type in my squared.

Now in order to get back

to finishing off my quadratic,

I need to take that blinking cursor

and get it back down,

and the way to do that is to hit the tab key.

Notice once I hit the tab key,

now my blinking cursor has gone down, underneath

and it is enclosing that entire expression

that tells me that I am done with that

and I can move on.

So I will type in plus five x minus seven

and I have created my quadratic.

Now if I had to go back and edit everything

I could tab back through

and notice when I hit the tab key

it gives me the ability to go in

and make some changes.

I am just going to hit the enter key

and go down and type a second expression.

I'll make it a little more involved this time.

Let's try something with a radical

If I go up into my tool bar,

and I choose that radical,

it gives me my square root

and I am going to type an actual expression

as opposed to just a number there

so lets say six x plus nine

now my blinkinq cursor

is still sitting underneath the radical

so if i kept typing it would just

extend that radical, but I want

to get out from under that,

so again I am going to hit the tab key

when I do that, notice now it has changed,

and it is showing me that I can move on

and I will just put in a minus ten

and I'm done!

So I am just going to hit the enter key,

and I am going to say,

"Well, that is all I want to put in for today."

So I will go up to file

Close and Return to Document 1.

Notice I could have just updated it and kept going

but for today I am going to close

and save changes, Yes.

and once I do that you can see

my Word document

now has those equations, well...

this quadratic expression,

and this radical expression.

I should not have said equation

because there is no equal sign there

Now we are going to go ahead

and save our document

We have to save it in Word

before we actually go to publish it.

So I am going to click File, Save As...

and I want to save this as a .doc file,

so I am going to go up to 97-2003 document .doc

and I will call this todaysTest and click Save

Now I can go and publish to MathPage

When I do that my little window comes up

I could title my page

and I want to choose "Using MathML"

When I go down and choose using MathML

notice that it gives me all browsers

Windows, Macintosh, Linux

but I dont want that, I want Internet Explorer.

So I am going to click on this down arrow

and choose MathPlayer IE behavior.

Once I do that, notice

that my target browser changes

and I have exactly what I want.

and I can click OK

It's processing the equations

and notice my window has changed

and my MathPlayer Logo has come up.

So I should be able to read this now with Jaws.

I am going to turn on my screen reader.

and it may take a minute to load.

We will come up here

and we will hit Insert down arrow

[screen reader] table with three rows

and row one column one

three x squared plus five x minus seven

row two column one square root of six x plus nine.

end root minus ten

row three column one end table.

But what we have managed to do here now is...

We have managed to create

screen reader accessible Mathematics

which is something that is very important!