Dear Pablo and others on the discussion about this specific topic. My personal 
experience on reading math/scientific formula/equations/expressions has been 
very bad in any format, may it be word, pdf or any other. It is true that 
tables are read correctly, but while reading formulae, etc, it makes no sense.
So far as symbols are concerned, Jaws16 and 17 have come up with improvements, 
and now symbols are correctly pronounced by Jaws, no matter whether those 
symbols are written independently or used in combination in any equation. But 
the real problem arises when equations are written using equation editor or any 
other programme (even math ML), they are not read correctly. Very often, 
research papers and standard books on mathematics/statistics/econometrics use 
standard programmes for writing equations/expressions/formulae which are 
difficult to read using Jaws.
Thanks and regards!
Vikas Dixit

On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 02:41:39 +0530 "Pablo Morales"  wrote
> Hi all,My college is giving me a  hard time, I am trying to read some PDF 
> files, where appears bunches of math formulas, and what jaws is reading 
> doesn’t make any sense. I mean, jaws is reading the information in parts and 
> the formulas that jaws reads doesn’t make sense, so I am not able to 
> understand anything in each question. Now the college is saying that  those 
> PDF files are fully accessible with jaws, but they are talking about jaws 10, 
> I really think that they don’t know what they are talking about. Anyway, I  
> would like to know if jaws is able to read MathML on web pages, on IE or 
> FireFox, if I open a PDF file, it should make the document more accessible?Or 
> what I am saying doesn’t make any sense like the math formulas in this PDF 
> file?  





Dr. Vikas Dixit
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, 
Kolkata-700032.
Tel. +913324572160 (Department), hand phone: +919748657055 (Kolkata), 
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