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Here are some thoughts on this topic, together with software designed to help make LaTeX more accessible, by a blind mathematician. http://latex-access.sourcef
by impendia 7y ago
Here are some thoughts on this topic, together with software designed to help make LaTeX more accessible, by a blind mathematician.
http://latex-access.sourceforge.net/ http://latex-access.sourceforge.net/
The software is designed to work with the LaTeX source, rather than with the ensuing PDFs. From what I can tell, it's not very complete -- but it certainly suggests to me that LaTeX provides a platform which can be built upon.
- CJefferson 7y agoGiven the academic world we are in, there are people making heroic efforts to make latex more accessible, and I don't want to discount that work. However, none of these systems work well, and I think it'd an unsolvable problem due to the fundamental foundation of TeX, which is actually a text rewriting system, so when using packages there never is a nice semantic description of the page. The only thing to do is to rewrite every package in another language, which describes semantically how to latex should be interpreted.
- impendia 7y agoSince you seem knowledgeable about the topic, could I ask -- What would an ideal solution look like? Say I have a complicated equation. How could I present it (in any format) so that a blind person could read it, and understand it as easily as possible?
- CJefferson 7y agoCurrently, the best practical option is do it in latex, but ensure the raw latex file is available as well as a pdf.
- impendia 7y agoMy question is more hypothetical than practical: what would an ideal solution look like? I literally have no idea.