[Blindmath] JAWS and Latex

[Paul Chapin]

I’ve been listening to some latex using JAWS and have run into some issues beside it just being a slog to listen to all those brackets.  If I have a negative number it reads the negative sign as dash rather than minus.  That’s fairly minor.  The bigger issue is if I have a variable denoted by the letter a it reads it using a soft a sound rather than hard a sound. This can be a major problem with something a times c which it reads as awk. While I l suppose you can get use to this, this combined sound is read so fast it takes me a second to realize what I’ve just heard and I have the advantage of actually seeing what’s being read.

Is there some kind of JAWS setting, or way of creating the Latex, that would result in a more normal sounding reading?

Paul Chapin
Academic Technology Specialist
Amherst College
X2144

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