List of math enabled screen readers
Screen reading technology with support for mathematical content is still rare. This page collects information on existing solutions.
MathPlayer by Design Science is the gold standard of math accessibility tools. MathPlayer is available as a plugin for Internet Explorer and also ships with several assistive technology solutions.
Features include:
- full MathML support
- semantic heuristics
- fast visual rendering
- aural and Braille rendering
- navigation/exploration
- synchronized highlighting.
MathPlayer 3 was released in June 2013 and supports IE 6-9; IE 10 support is pending.
ChromeVox is an open source screenreader developed at Google. Its technology is available as a Chrome extension and as part of ChromeOS and Android.
Features include
- Presentation MathML support
- semantic heuristics
- support for MathJax output
- aural rendering
- navigation/exploration
- enlivening images with math in alt or title text using MathJax (mathworld, wordpress.com etc).
- speech rules APIs
Voice Over is Apple's accessibility solution for OSX and iOS.
Starting with iOS7, basic aural rendering of MathML support seems available.
Needed: links to documentation or tests of its functionality.
Readspeaker is a text-to-speech provider for web-based content.
There's a math demo but it's unclear if this is generated on the fly. It seems to support aural rendering of "html-math" and MathML, including support for MathJax output.