[Blindmath] Accessible visual objects by a screen reader

[Michael Whapples]

Another thing I forgot to mention, should SVGDraw be more suited to the 
way you want to work, then one possible solution is to use software to 
convert the SVG into a format word can insert. I imagine there are image 
conversion tools out there capable of this, but another option (probably 
not ideal) would be to load the SVG in something like firefox or recent 
versions of Internet Explorer, and then use print and one of the print 
to PDF tools. You probably would need to crop such a resulting PDF, but 
I know that all tools would be free.

Michael Whapples
On 17/12/2012 22:20, Michael Whapples wrote:
> One alternative I quite like for drawing is the PGF/TikZ package for 
> LaTeX. I don't know all the formats it can produce, but should it be 
> required then you certainly can compile it to PDF and I have been lead 
> to believe one can insert a PDF into a word document.
>
> There is a introduction to PGF/TikZ on the LaTeX wikibook at 
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/PGF/TikZ, and should LaTeX be new 
> to you then you might want to learn a little about LaTeX, the LaTeX 
> wikibook might be a starting point although there are other 
> tutorials/books on LaTeX.
>
> Also remember the LaTeX wikibook only scratches the surface of what 
> can be done with LaTeX and PGF/TikZ, I think the PGF/TikZ official 
> reference book is over 200 pages.
>
> Regarding the descriptions of charts, yes there is not anything to do 
> precisely what you ask. However one thing which can be used should you 
> have a set of X-Y data, if you were to get excel to export the data as 
> a text file with multiple columns (columns separated by tabs and rows 
> on new lines), then you could use other tools to get some sort of 
> accessible output (eg. MathTrax will attempt to provide a textual 
> description of the X-Y plot as well as an audio graph). Remember 
> though, such solutions are very specific to certain types of charts 
> and so are far from being a general solution.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 15/12/2012 11:24, Kiran S Deshpande wrote:
>> Dear Pranav,
>>
>> Agreed that at the moment there is not a feature in the screen reader to
>> describe the graphic object, you have suggested me that the program 
>> SVG draw
>> 1 can be used, i downloaded the same and used it to draw some shapes, 
>> saved
>> the file as sample1. Svg, now if i wanted to impot this file in a word
>> document or an excel sheet, it is not possible either. So is this the
>> limitation of the diagrams being drawn by some program that can be 
>> imported
>> in to word or excel directly.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kiran
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Raju
>> singh
>> Sent: 15 December 2012 15:46
>> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
>> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Accessible visual objects by a screen reader
>>
>> Oh hi pranav sir, thanks a tonne for sharing such a valuable site!
>> -----Original message-----
>> From: Pranav Lal
>> Sent:  15/12/2012, 3:37  pm
>> To: 'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'
>> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Accessible visual objects by a screen reader
>>
>>
>> Hi Kiran,
>>
>> No screen reader can do what you ask. Screen Readers like Jaws and 
>> Window
>> Eyes access the document object models of programs like Excel and 
>> display
>> values relating to graphs. They don't do image analysis. Yes, we have 
>> OCR in
>> some of them but that does not handle math as far as I know.
>>
>> As for directly drawing shapes, the best we have is scalable vector
>> graphics. See http://www.dickbaldwin.com.
>> Pranav
>>
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