WMF project grants

WMF project grants

For MathJax:

• improved i18n
  • RTL/bi-di support
  • support for complex text layout in TeX input (https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/474)
  • improved font support
    • improve dev tools for adding new fonts
    • add fonts for better Unicode coverage (in particular for the above)
    • better font-mixing / fallback behavior so that "non-math" fonts (e.g., the surrounding text font) can be used without losing functionality
  • elementary MathML support?
    • rendering support
    • TeX macro support
• compatibility between mathoid and MathJax v3
  • new features (like the above) will very likely be v3-only
    • => ensure that the v3 design aligns with mathoid's requirements
  • in particular, ensure performance improvements are not lost
  • in particular, better compatibility with texvc to enable more MathJax features in mathoid

For SRE

• localization
  • develop speech rules for various languages
  • requires collaboration with country-specific specialists (we have some contacts but not for all languages)
• integrate semantic analysis (e.g., wikidata)
• develop heuristics specialized for Wikipedia's content (i.e., leverage information from custom macros)
• extend MathJax's a11y extension (which integrate SRE in the client) to handle mathjax-node output and thus provide an opt-in on the client-side.
• "deep aria label" output to make MathJax's output aurally explorable (not just a speech string but DOM exploration to navigate subexpression)