[BlindMath] TeX Conference: Please contribute to talk on STEM accessibility

[Jonathan Fine]

Hi

I've submitted a talk proposal about STEM accessibility to the online 2021
TeX Users Group conference. I'd like most of the talk to be blind, visually
impaired or sighted support persons sharing their experience and knowledge.
The talk will be pre-recorded, prior to the conference on 5 to 8 August.

Are you interested? There's room for about 10 three minute individual
talks. You can record something at the Accessibility TeX Hour this
Thursday. Or simply send me a talk or a URL. Providing audio only is fine.
(If I get extra talks, I'll find a way to publish them all.)

Here's the TeX Hour details: Thursday 8 July, 6.30 to 7.30pm UK time. The
UK time now is at https://time.is/UK. The zoom details are
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09
Meeting ID: 785 5125 5396
Passcode: knuth

In case you didn't know, TeX was written by the very eminent computer
scientist Don Knuth. TeX is the basis for LaTeX, the widespread language
for mathematical typesetting.

There's a renewed interest in accessibility in the TeX community. The
limits of PDF are better recognised, and there's a LaTeX Team project to
generate tagged PDF. This effort is intended to help you. I hope some of
you will introduce yourselves to the TeX community.

In the long term, I hope  for example that they'll learn from your
experience of navigating trees, and that TeX users (sighted or not) will be
better able to create more accessible documents.

Finally, here the URL for the TeX 2021 conference: https://tug.org/tug2021/

with best regards

Jonathan