What are your recommendations for creating accessible math equations in RISE content? We need these to be accessible to students using screenreaders. Can we input MathJax/ML etc into RISE? Or is the only option to add each equation as an image with alt text description or maybe create a Word document with these equations, both of which are very time consuming. Please advise as we'd like to continue building in RISE, but need to ensure that these are accessible for users.
With Articulate's seeming commitment to accessibility, it's stunning to me that in 2023 there's still no viable math equation tool in Rise. This thread has been active for literally years.
Accessible math is legally required by U.S. federal guidelines for public/state institutions, so it's imperative for Articulate to resolve this ASAP.
This solution is viable for an isolated equation in a main block, but what if you want to have an equation appear in a process block, or an interactive figure?! What we need is an in-line equation editor that is available everywhere that text can appear. Perhaps an addition to the Quick Insert options would be a way forward? It wouldn't allow equations to appear on the same line as text, but it would certainly be an advance on what's (not) available at the moment!
I was able to get equations in my Rise course by using inline images, here I show you how to screenshot results from MathJax. The html used in the screen recording:
Nice one, I was doing something similar by uploading the image as a file then using the url from that. But uri is better as it still works when a course is copied over.
Right on, if you insert a url (even a rise/articulate url) it creates an external dependency on that file (which could become blocked by a strict LMS, or the file could disappear eventually). This ensures it becomes part of the export.
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Are there any actual plans for a LaTex style editor to ever be part of Rise?
With Articulate's seeming commitment to accessibility, it's stunning to me that in 2023 there's still no viable math equation tool in Rise. This thread has been active for literally years.
Accessible math is legally required by U.S. federal guidelines for public/state institutions, so it's imperative for Articulate to resolve this ASAP.
This solution is viable for an isolated equation in a main block, but what if you want to have an equation appear in a process block, or an interactive figure?! What we need is an in-line equation editor that is available everywhere that text can appear. Perhaps an addition to the Quick Insert options would be a way forward? It wouldn't allow equations to appear on the same line as text, but it would certainly be an advance on what's (not) available at the moment!
I was able to get equations in my Rise course by using inline images, here I show you how to screenshot results from MathJax. The html used in the screen recording:
<img style="display:inline-block;height: 2.8em;vertical-align: middle;" src="replacewithdata">
and url for converting image to inline data-
https://www.site24x7.com/tools/image-to-datauri.html
Nice one, I was doing something similar by uploading the image as a file then using the url from that. But uri is better as it still works when a course is copied over.
Right on, if you insert a url (even a rise/articulate url) it creates an external dependency on that file (which could become blocked by a strict LMS, or the file could disappear eventually). This ensures it becomes part of the export.
Adding the same request: We'd love a math equation editor feature in Rise!
Hi Alexa!
Thanks for sharing the feedback on the type of functionality you'd like to see in Rise 360!
I've included you in the feature report and will update this discussion if it makes it onto our Feature Roadmap.
Have a great week!
Any news on the addition of math equation feature?
Hello Carrie,
I have no updates to share yet, but we'll update this discussion once the Math equation feature is available, and you will be among the first to know!