[BlindMath] A question from developers

[Dickson Tan]

Hi,


I personally use a screen reader for math. For symbols, it shouldn't be 
translated to word equivalents for the reason you described and also, 
screen readers can be set to read more punctuation in specific 
situations such as this one.


On 24/7/2018 11:59 PM, Boris Veytsman via BlindMath wrote:
> 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.
>