[Blindmath] Mathematical document accessibility

[Michael Whapples]

You can always run a LaTeX to mathml translator on a LaTeX file for 
reading (eg. use tex4ht, ttm, etc). You may find some of these better 
than others for creating accessible mathml.

Once you have learnt LaTeX and got a good text editor like emacs then it 
can be easier to use than wysiwyg word processors. However the initial 
time learning LaTeX (particularly when you plan to write documents in it 
rather than just reading documents) can be longer than that for a 
wysiwyg editor (wysiwyg editors don't really need learning to use as you 
can always find the option from a menu or somewhere, but looking for 
options will take time). I suppose what I am saying is that for writing 
you need to use a system, may that system be word and equation editor, 
openoffice, chattyinfty, wintriangle or LaTeX, and should you choose to 
change between any of them you will still need to "learn another system" 
however small or large the differences are (eg. wintriangle and 
chattyinfty may have similarities but they still differ, the differences 
are just greater between any of the wysiwyg editors and LaTeX).

Michael Whapples
On 16/03/09 00:40, Pranav Lal wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> I was replying to the entire thread so your message did answer my question.
> I now have a better appreciation of the issues in using MathML.
>
> I doubt that screen reader manufacturers will be doing anything about math
> but then I could be wrong. My only problem with LaTeX is that the user needs
> to learn a separate system. With MathML, the rendering engine handles the
> rendering of symbols so the user has to do less work.
>
> I have had no experience of LaTeX so I could be wrong.
>
> Pranav
>
>
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