[Blindmath] Questions about complex formulas, tagging PDFs, and users' expectations

[P. R. Stanley]

yet, Pure LaTeX doesn't require any fancy software. All it requires 
is a bit of effort to learn the system. I repeat, no additional 
software, no compatibility issues, it is that straightforward and 
guess what, it is the only genuinely accessible system for typesetting maths.
What's more, with LaTeX you're not aiding and abetting some marketing 
ruse whose ultimate aim has as much to do with the progress and the 
general betterment of blind people as the intentions of a drug dealer 
with the welfare of the addict.
Paul

At 02:54 30/10/2009, you wrote:
>I've got nothing new to add other than support what John Gardner and Michael
>Whapples have said, and I concur with their order of preference:
>XHTML+MathML (which will work with HTML5 eventually) or (less good) images
>with latex as alt tex.
>
>I have software that can read PDF that is tagged with MathML, but there is
>no software to tag PDF with MathML yet, and there are no screen readers that
>would call my software.  In the most rosy of all worlds, it would be another
>year before work on pdftex comes to fruition and pdftex automatically tags
>PDF with MathML.  But realistically, the person who is doing that work
>thinks it will be several more years before it happens -- it is pretty
>complex.
>
>Neil Soiffer
>Senior Scientist
>Design Science, Inc.
>www.dessci.com
>~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, WebEQ, Equation
>Editor ~
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