Accessibility and STACK

Speakers: Tim Lowe and Chris Hughes

Date: Thursday 19 Feb 2026,
Time: 14.00 pm GMT (15.00 pm CET), the seminar will last for 1.5 hour
Location: Online

We will discuss the visual accessibility of graphical and mathematical content within STACK questions. We will demonstrate how ALT-text and figure descriptions can be provided for figures, and how we have been producing these at The Open University.

We will also describe the accessibility features of MathJax used to display mathematics within STACK.  We will demonstrate how both figure descriptions and mathematics can be read and interacted with when using screen-reading software.

Updates:

For anyone wanting to get started with NVDA, the following link might be helpful https://cmhughes.github.io/a11y-slides-math/

If you need the XML file of the questions demonstrated on the seminar email Konstantina Zerva k.zerva@ed.ac.uk

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