[Blindmath] FW: [program-l] accessible latex editor

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
TeXnic Center has been presented at the ICCHP Summer University since 
the first one in 2010. So for those wanting to use it then some of the 
materials from Summer University may be useful.

It is slightly surprising that this is the first time anyone has given 
the developers feedback on accessibility as people have been using it as 
an accessible TeX editor for some years now.

May be it is an indication of its success, when something works well you 
should not really notice your using it, you should just be able to get 
on with the task you want to. Unfortunately for developers this does 
mean that positive feedback is less frequently recieved.

This makes me think a little of the GRML Linux distribution, where there 
once was talk of removing certain accessibility features to reduce the 
image size as the developer heard nothing about it being used, and then 
all these comments came forward saying don't remove it, no comments were 
given because it just worked and no improvements needed to be made.

May be it says something about the state of other tools when one feels 
they have to say something about a tool just doing what it is meant to.

Michael Whapples
On 28/03/2014 01:38, Pranav Lal wrote:
> Some of you may find the below message interesting.
> 	
> Apologies if this has been discussed before.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: program-l-bounce at freelists.org [mailto:program-l-bounce at freelists.org]
> On Behalf Of Jackie McBride
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 4:21 AM
> To: program-l
> Subject: [program-l] accessible latex editor
>
> I don't know if any of yall use Latex, but, after a considerable
> search, I found an editor called TeXnicCenter, available from
> www.texniccenter.org.
>
> The developers have made some special efforts to make it accessible to
> us. So if this is somethin u need, go ahead & grab it, & maybe do like
> I did & send the devs a thank-you note. They appreciated it & actually
> responded back that it was the first time they'd heard back regarding
> its usefulness by those w/sight impairments. They also asked that if I
> had any issues for me to notify them. So I think it's important for us
> to let one another know about accessible tools, & for those who use
> them to contact developers & let them know their efforts are
> appreciated. Tryin' to do my part.
>
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