[BlindMath] A question from developers

[Robin Williams]

I agree!

-----Original Message-----
From: BlindMath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bill Dengler via BlindMath
Sent: 24 July 2018 17:06
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Bill Dengler <codeofdusk at gmail.com>; Boris Veytsman <borisv at lk.net>
Subject: Re: [BlindMath] A question from developers

No, don’t do this. Screen readers should be able to process punctuation.

Bill

> On 24 Jul 2018, at 15:59, Boris Veytsman via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> 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 
> BV> at 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
> 
> I'd rather push my Harley than ride a rice burner.
> 
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