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New Formula Feature Not Accessible
It would be helpful to see the project you tried this on, given this is a brand new feature! I hope you shared your test course with support@articulate.com since you did not post it here. The support article on this feature indicates that the editor does support MathJAX commands so I'm curious what might have happened.
Thanks! I'll see if any developers or maybe Ronnie_Pilman want to chime in, but from my understanding in this article, the purpose of the math equations editor is to get them to actually display properly (since the text editor in Rise couldn't do that before and would just appear as normal body font with superscripts), but that the editor allows the equation to now be displayed as SVGs. So for a screen reader, the alt text and/or long description needs to do the heavy lifting, and in your example your long description would need to read something like "pi r squared equals"
Here's my example of a before/after: https://rise.articulate.com/share/Q6vh_v1l7XU3y6RUB_xdxZ37wwl8eDiE#/lessons/p7S8kMUttKJMWCJMCj3cg48dlPISYWNI
That provides no improvement over using an image. Using a text alt tag is simply not feasible for Engineering, Math, or Statistics courses. We need the ability to have accessible formulas. People have been asking for this here for at least 7 years.