[Blindmath] accessible math websites

[Jared Wright]

Well I haven't heard of or investigated Troff or its offshoots, so I 
appreciate the testimonial. I'll have to give it a look.

Jared
On 3/16/2009 11:28 AM, Michael Whapples wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>
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