[BlindMath] A question from developers

[vincentfmartin2020 at gmail.com]

I am mostly audio and add Braille when needed.
I have retinitis pigmentosa and was formerly 20/20 as a child.  I became a
very auditory learner before I knew I had the disease.  I  never used
magnification and went directly to using a screen reading program when I was
not even legally blind.  I learned Braille when I was not legally blind as
well as I felt it would be beneficial to learn before I actually needed to.

Since going totally blind, I selectively use Braille when I think it will
assist in my comprehension of something like tactile graphs  or when a
spreadsheet gets to be to hairy to comprehend.  
I had to use Braille when learning Python as I just could not get the hang
of the spacing with the language using a screen reading program then.  I can
do it now, but was glad that I had already learned Braille and got a 40 cell
display on my Pac-mate then.  
   

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From: BlindMath <blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Boris Veytsman
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Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 12:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [BlindMath] A question from developers


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.

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Good luck

-Boris

I'd rather push my Harley than ride a rice burner.

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