[Blindmath] accessible math websites

[Michael Whapples]

Regarding the alternative systems, I said that with a memory of one 
lecturer at university saying that he used troff (some other 
implementations of troff include groff and mroff). From what I can tell 
troff input files are all in plain text, so like LaTeX the input source 
files should pose no accessibility issues. Checking output, like with 
LaTeX, may be a slight problem (particularly if you want to guarantee a 
certain formatting) if you want to do it all independently. I am not 
going to make any claim as to what it is like to use/learn as I haven't 
used it, but this should be about the same as it is for any sighted user 
of troff.

I do believe LaTeX is more popular, so if you want to use something 
likely to be used by others then LaTeX is possibly a better choice. I 
mentioned about alternatives simply to say LaTeX is not the only system.

Michael Whapples
On 16/03/09 11:14, Jared Wright wrote:
> Of course, 100% accessible is probably a slight exaggeration, but I 
> certainly don't know of any equivalent notation systems that provide 
> the level of access for the blind that LaTeX does. Yes, you may need 
> sighted assistance to confirm the way LaTeX compiled at some point, 
> but don't you need sighted asistance to tell you the WYSYWYG editor 
> you're using did what you want? If you know of some way of editing 
> documents without vision that allows you to check all potential facets 
> of a document for correctness without any sort of sighted 
> confirmation, lead me to it! *smile*
>
> Jared
>