[BlindMath] Please, more talk between blind math users and LaTeX developers
Alberto Buffolino
a.buffolino at gmail.com
Sat Mar 13 19:27:46 UTC 2021
Brandon Keith Biggs via BlindMath, il 13/03/2021 17.56, ha scritto:
Who are the LaTeX developers working on making tagged documents?
Alberto:
Hi all,
I'm new on this list, subscribed a couple of days ago. I read some
recent discussions from the web archive, but/so excuse me if I'll tell
things already known 🙂
About tagging of PDF and accessibility of included math, I recently
examined this solution:
https://github.com/integr-abile/axessibility
that then is the axessibility package installable from MiKTeX too.
I ran some tests, and verified that, at the moment, is a very expensive
solution in terms of work to adapt documents for a better result (manual
tagging with multiple commands, dollar signs replacement with
brackets... see *T.tex files in repository for some examples). Some
regexps could help a lot, I think, but there is nothing at the moment.
Interestingly, I tried lwarp package (discovered here) very quickly, and
it seems it replaces dollars with brackets automatically, that sounds
promising...
Unfortunately, I agree with who love HTML for these tasks: I play with
LaTeX2HTML since 2010, when I started my degree course in Computer
Science (completed in 2019), and thanks to it I got and studied on
accessible materials quite successfully (but nothing would happened
without sources provided by my teachers, obviously). Sadly, even today I
cannot find anything about the procedure linked to its usefulness for
blind students, so I hope to share it on my blog as soon as possible
(even if I'm sure it's already known here), revealing also a couple of
my tweaks.
Closing words... sorry for my English 🙂
Alberto
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