[BlindMath] Accessibility of Latex to PDF

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello Paulius,
You should look into using LaTeX in Markdown with Pandoc. It has all the
LaTeX formulas without all the tags. It reduces the document size
significantly.
I know there are some people on this list who use Markdown with LaTeX for
math quite often.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>


On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 10:54 AM Paulius Lėveris via BlindMath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> Personally, as I'm a 2nd year student of Computer Science, I'm quite
> familiar with LaTeX. From almost one and a half year of experience
> working with LaTeX files, I think it is possible to be able to read
> math content in LaTeX.
> After some time spent looking how these files are made and structured,
> personally I found that reading, analysing and even writing math with
> LaTeX system is either the best solution for completely blind person.
> Why I say this? Because from LaTeX file you can read a formula symbol
> by symbol, and if you are a bit familiar with this system, it does not
> take long time to understand even very long formulars.
> Yes, some of you may say that doing it in MS Word environment in MS
> Equasion is more comfortable... Well, I think LaTeX is my 1st choice
> now after trying out lots of things that somehow (more or less) works
> with math content and screen readers.
> Aditionally, in my opinion, LaTeX is a good (if not best!) solution
> for not only reading, but also for writing math content. Yes, it takes
> really long time (even for beginner), but it's possible. After writing
> your tasks given by your professor, you can just put your LaTeX source
> to be compiled to PDF file that is a standard way to give to your
> professor. This way your work should look very clear to your
> professor...
> Hmm... Sorry if I was too advanced here (I don't know if this is
> helpful to you, but I say these things from my personal experience).
> If we'd talk about how LaTeX source could be compiled for reading,
> yes, sometimes converting LaTeX to Word may ssound good in order to
> avoid reading LaTeX tags while reading math content, but I'm not so
> sure how complex formulars panda can understand from LaTeX, well, it's
> not a bad point I guess. For compiling LaTeX to PDF as a ready paper
> (to send to your professor for example), I prefer using MikTeX
> application, where is automatically builtin pdflatex compiler. You can
> easely call it from command line, something like this:
> <pdflatex my_work.tex>
> And if there are no source errors, it should give you <my_work.pdf> in
> the same directory.
> Also, if I'm not mistaken, MikTeX is able to make html documents from
> LaTeX source, that would also not be very bad solution for screen
> reader users I'd say.
> Again, I'm sorry if this sounds too complex..
> Besst regards,
> Paulius
>
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