[BlindMath] TeX Hour: Thu 3 June: TeX from scratch: Rethinking the beginner experience

[Jonathan Fine]

Aside: I've been strongly influenced by the widespread use of Visual Studio
Code by the people on the visually impaired programmers list.

Aside: Here, without comment, are the top 4 links for 'blind people
learning latex'.
https://www.google.com/search?q=blind+people+learning+latex
https://nfb.org//sites/default/files/images/nfb/publications/fr/fr31/2/fr310212.htm
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/47054/teaching-latex-to-visually-disabled
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_20
https://www.szs.kit.edu/english/1298.php

Hi

Tomorrow's TeX Hour is about relearning and rethinking the beginner
experience. It's Thursday 3 June, 6:30 to 7:30pm UK time. As a community,
we need to keep up. So much has changed since 2011.

1. Online YouTube videos on learning latex have been viewed over 10 million
times.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=learn+latex&sp=CAM%253D

2. The LaTeX extension to Visual Studio Code has been downloaded over 1.2
million times.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=James-Yu.latex-workshop

3. The online LaTeX math via MathJax tutorial has been viewed over 1.2
million times.
https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/mathjax-basic-tutorial

The TeX Hour is Thursday 3 June, 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

Interested? Please email me, or come along to the TeX Hour. I welcome your
experience and ideas. The starting point will be the well viewed URLs above.

The video from last week (Understand + refactor TeX Live: more flexible +
agile) is at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw1FZfIX1w7hHiNEqVhZOmiV8mdaiQ-SA

with best regards

Jonathan