[Blindmath] LaTeX with a screen reader

[Michael Whapples]

I think what was being spoken about was to make it easier to work with 
LaTeX with a screen reader when writing a document.

My view though is that one probably is best to create their own set of 
commands using the in built LaTeX stuff for new commands rather than 
someone trying to create a general DSL. My thinking being that everyone 
has there own needs and so will want different commands and so a general 
DSL will be hard to design which will satisfy many people.

It is worth noting that possibly one might say there are already ways 
you can write documents in other more concise formats and then convert 
to LaTeX (eg. reStructuredText 
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html), so why create another?

Also I do sort of agree with what you said, should someone really be put 
off by having to use any of the options mentioned above and they want 
good spoken output then LaTeX is probably not the thing for them and 
they may be better served by MathType or one of the specialist editors 
like ChattyInfty, triangle, LAMBDA, etc or soon LEAN math which John 
Gardner has been working on.

So I also am not quite sure what problem it is trying to solve.

Michael Whapples
On 15/06/2013 18:20, Susan Jolly wrote:
> Hi Jamal,
>
> You are correct that I did not realize you were talking about using 
> LaTeX with a screen reader.
>
> Why would you want to do that?  If you prefer spoken math to braille 
> math, there are already several ways to get spoken math including 
> using MathType or one of the gh products that uses MathSpeak.
>
> Sincerely,
> SusanJ
>
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