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xworld21yesterday at 4:54 PM1 replyview on HN

True, my knee jerk reaction came from seeing this run in the browser... but that does not change the question. RaTeX advertises itself as a renderer for native apps, but how are those apps supposed to implement accessible controls? Does RaTeX offer anything towards that?


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nkmnzyesterday at 5:06 PM

Honestly, I have no idea how native apps for desktop or mobile handle accessibility. There is katex-rs[0] that outputs html and mathML. I'd assume the two could work together and the mathML would be fed to whatever the screen reader receives instead of the image?

On a related note: is mathML more accessible than an AI generated text of how a human would read the mathematical or chemical formula?

[0] https://crates.io/crates/katex-rs

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