[Blindmath] questions about LaTeX and accessibility for blind people

[Jared Wright]

Try reading the document top to bottom, left to right in the 
Accessibility preferences rather than inferring the orientation from the 
document as is the default behavior in Adobe's products.
On 08/04/2010 06:47 AM, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
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> Hi all,
> I originally posted some questions about LaTeX on the NABS and NFBCS
> mailing lists. Someone recommended I try asking my questions here. So,
> here's a copy of my original post to those lists.
>
> Good evening folks,
> The subject says it all. I'm exploring the use of the LaTeX typesetting
> system. I can use it to generate math equations and the like, but if i
> do so it's not accessible once I generate the final product. That's fine
> as far as writing goes, since I have the source I know what it says.
> However, I'd rather not contribute to the problems we already face where
> blindness and access to this sort of information is concerned. So, can
> anyone provide me with information on formatting these types of
> documents so they're accessible? Can it even be done? Even making it so
> the LaTeX source appears for the blind where the equations would go for
> the sighted would be a good thing.
>
> Also, I've noticed that when using pdflatex from the texlive-latex
> package under Linux, the resulting document appears to have one word per
> line when read by Window-Eyes and adobe Acrobat. I can tell you visually
> that it appears correctly on screen though. I see this as another
> potential access problem. Any clue how to fix that? Using latex2rtf and
> hevea for generating rtf and html result in documents that don't have
> this property and can be read just fine, save for the problems with
> equations which I've already discussed.
>
> If I had to, I could always provide LaTeX source along side what ever
> other formats I offer for my own work. However, in the case of
> publishing and that it may not always be an option to do so. So I'm
> exploring my options. LaTeX is one that math and computer scientists
> seem to use heavily, so that's the obvious choice if I can make it work.
> - - --
> They say god has always been. Linux and I will now disprove that:
> $ ar m God
> ar: creating God
> There you have it. God was created by the ar program. Good news is, God
> really does exist!
> Joseph C. Lininger<jbahm at pcdesk.net>
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