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> considering I had to work with teachers who didn't have any experience with blind people before. Sorry you had to pave the way. > PDFs generated with pdflat
by 908B64B197 5y ago
> considering I had to work with teachers who didn't have any experience with blind people before.
Sorry you had to pave the way.
> PDFs generated with pdflatex and similar aren't screen reader accessible, but I could read the LaTeX source code just fine.
That's... sad. Is Word any better?
- necovek 5y agopdflatex, just like TeX, comes from an 8-bit past, so it will frequently resort to custom encodings to fit all the glyphs in a single 255-character font. That means that any 8-bit "character" (in PDF bytes, what is really copy-pasteable or readable by TTS system) can actually stand for any displayable character. Perhaps XeTeX is better? (I am not intimately familiar with what pdf(la)tex does, but this is how TeX works, and I've seen those PDFs, esp with eg. Cyrillic, which on select show up garbled text)
- mwcampbell 5y ago> Sorry you had to pave the way. It's something I think we're all used to, and will likely always be the case, because non-elderly blind people are such a tiny minority (perhaps we're even over-represented here on HN).