A trick to eliminate 2π (sometimes)
Unrelated to the content but complaining about the website is a popular thing to do here so I'd like to share my experience, as a blind user.<p>Here is what my screen reader sees for this page:<p>Recently, I came up with a trick that can get rid of<p>in many cases. It’s pretty simple, but it has some interesting implications. This is the trick: I just define a new derivative operator, like so:<p>That’s all. You just take the derivative and then divide by<p>. I call this derivative operator with the bar on the upper<p>the reduced derivative.Now, why is this interesting? To start off, we’ll note that the unique function<p>...
The unfortunate truth is a ton of math content on the web reads like this. It has crippled me as a blind user who would like to appreciate math for over a decade. In university I was forced to pursue a degree other than CS because the math program used software which produced output like this and refused to change.<p>There has been technical progress, and many sites are starting to work better--Wikimedia most fantastically, but this old bugbear made me want to speak up and beg people to try and review their math content with a screen reader before publishing (I think MathJax has some built-in accessibility now?).