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.Here is what my screen reader sees for this page:Recently, I came up with a trick that can get rid ofin 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:That’s all. You just take the derivative and then divide by. I call this derivative operator with the bar on the upperthe reduced derivative.Now, why is this interesting? To start off, we’ll note that the unique function...
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.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?).