[BlindMath] A question from developers

[Boris Veytsman]

BV> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:33:30 -0700
BV> From: Boris Veytsman <borisv at lk.net>

BV> At the recent discussion following the TeX accessibility workshop at
BV> Rio a question was raised: do people use Braille devices for
BV> math-heavy texts, or screen readers only?  Can we have an informal
BV> straw poll here?



Perhaps I should add why did we discuss this.

Suppose we add LaTeX code to the math to be sent to screen reader.
The code has backslashes in it, which may be incorrectly interpeted by
the software.  To prevent this, we can translate each backslash to the
word `backslash'.  However, this means 9 symbols instead of one:  not
a problem for a screen reader, but perhaps slowing down a Braille
device.

-- 
Good luck

-Boris

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