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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Well, yes and no: If you are able to physically see the image, you can read its information; however, if you are visually disabled, the image will do you little good. This is why MathML was created, to provide actual math markup that can be read by readers and browsers, for those who are visually disabled. Thus far, MathML is not supported by most applications, but it should be eventually.
Hopefully even PDF will read MathML and be able to tag it for reflowing (though that could look interesting, to say the least). At present, I don't know of any e-book readers that can handle MathML, which puts them in the same boat as PDF.
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YOu are correct. I was assuming a sighted reader which is likely true for every owner of current eBook devices although partially sighted viewers may be candidates for some that have really large fonts. A good reader like MSReader can zoom the images independently from the text which aids in seeing the images. Of course if you have to zoom too much you may have to copy the information to a piece of paper to take it all in
MathML sounds interesting. Hopefully it can be incorporated into Readers in the future to provide the ability to reconstruct the math in a more meaningful way for different size screens.
Dale