I don't have time to respond right now, but regarding the accessibility, mathematics is also more complex in that case too. Basically the two use cases are I'm aware of are
- For blind people or other visual disabilities, speech synthesizer must follow the MathSpeak rules. Simply reading the text "normally", e.g. of a LaTeX or ASCII source, is ambiguous. - For people with reading disabilities (dyslexia etc), you need to synchronize highlight of equation parts / reading of equation parts. In both cases, you must know a bit more about the mathematical structure e.g. to have a DOM. It's not clear how to do that with plain text. It's just absurd to believe that putting TeX source inside the alt text of an <img> makes the formula accessible. It might works for very simple equations like x+2 but in general you'll have to do some parsing into an abstract representation if you want to read/highlight it correctly. With MathML you already have a standard representation and there already exist tools to work with that language. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
