scribble-math/src/mathMLTree.js
Emily Eisenberg aaeab1200c Add MathML rendering to improve accessibility
Summary:
This adds support for rendering KaTeX to both HTML and MathML
with the intent of improving accessibility. To accomplish this, both
MathML and HTML are rendered, but with the MathML visually hidden and
the HTML spans aria-hidden. Hopefully, this should produce much better
accessibility for KaTeX.

Should fix/improve #38

Closes #189

Test Plan:
 - Ensure all the tests, and the new tests, still pass.
 - Ensure that for each of the group types in `buildHTML.js`, there is a
   corresponding one in `buildMathML.js`.
 - Ensure that the huxley screenshots didn't change (except for
   BinomTest, which changed because I fixed a bug in `buildHTML` where
   `genfrac` didn't have a `groupToType` mapping).
 - Run ChromeVox on the test page, render some math. (for example,
   `\sqrt{x^2}`)
   - Ensure that a mathy-sounding expression is read. (I hear "group
     square root of x squared math").
   - Ensure that nothing else is read (like no "x" or "2").
 - Ensure that MathML markup is generated correctly and is interpreted
   by the browser correctly by running
   `document.getElementById("math").innerHTML =
   katex.renderToString("\\sqrt{x^2}");` and seeing that the same speech
   is read.

Reviewers: john, alpert

Reviewed By: john, alpert

Subscribers: alpert, john

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.khanacademy.org/D16373
2015-03-01 18:33:20 -08:00

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/**
* These objects store data about MathML nodes. This is the MathML equivalent
* of the types in domTree.js. Since MathML handles its own rendering, and
* since we're mainly using MathML to improve accessibility, we don't manage
* any of the styling state that the plain DOM nodes do.
*
* The `toNode` and `toMarkup` functions work simlarly to how they do in
* domTree.js, creating namespaced DOM nodes and HTML text markup respectively.
*/
var utils = require("./utils");
/**
* This node represents a general purpose MathML node of any type. The
* constructor requires the type of node to create (for example, `"mo"` or
* `"mspace"`, corresponding to `<mo>` and `<mspace>` tags).
*/
function MathNode(type, children) {
this.type = type;
this.attributes = {};
this.children = children || [];
}
/**
* Sets an attribute on a MathML node. MathML depends on attributes to convey a
* semantic content, so this is used heavily.
*/
MathNode.prototype.setAttribute = function(name, value) {
this.attributes[name] = value;
};
/**
* Converts the math node into a MathML-namespaced DOM element.
*/
MathNode.prototype.toNode = function() {
var node = document.createElementNS(
"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML", this.type);
for (var attr in this.attributes) {
if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(this.attributes, attr)) {
node.setAttribute(attr, this.attributes[attr]);
}
}
for (var i = 0; i < this.children.length; i++) {
node.appendChild(this.children[i].toNode());
}
return node;
};
/**
* Converts the math node into an HTML markup string.
*/
MathNode.prototype.toMarkup = function() {
var markup = "<" + this.type;
// Add the attributes
for (var attr in this.attributes) {
if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(this.attributes, attr)) {
markup += " " + attr + "=\"";
markup += utils.escape(this.attributes[attr]);
markup += "\"";
}
}
markup += ">";
for (var i = 0; i < this.children.length; i++) {
markup += this.children[i].toMarkup();
}
markup += "</" + this.type + ">";
return markup;
};
/**
* This node represents a piece of text.
*/
function TextNode(text) {
this.text = text;
}
/**
* Converts the text node into a DOM text node.
*/
TextNode.prototype.toNode = function() {
return document.createTextNode(this.text);
};
/**
* Converts the text node into HTML markup (which is just the text itself).
*/
TextNode.prototype.toMarkup = function() {
return utils.escape(this.text);
};
module.exports = {
MathNode: MathNode,
TextNode: TextNode
};