[BlindMath] Advice for blind biomedical engineering student

[Alex Jordan]

Hello Lucas,

Is it possible to let David and I see the LaTeX source for this textbook?
Depending on how well the LaTeX is structured, we may have a solution for
you that is better than what you have managed so far.

Alex

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 6:15 PM Lucas Nadolskis via BlindMath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hello Jonathan.
> Thank you very much for your email.
>
> You actually gave me an idea with HTML that I hadn’t thought before.
> I find it to be very promising and I will most definitely investigate it
> further.
> On that topic:
> One of the things I am trying to access now is a textbook.
> The professor gave me the LaTeX file of the book, but due to its math
> content it is kinda hard to read in tex.
> So I was trying to convert it with DBT, but the way the publisher wrote
> the LeTeX is not very friendly to DBT.
> Long story short.
> I have just converted it to HTML and it looks like it might have worked.
> However, in braille the math portion doesn’t show up, it is just the
> symbols of DBT indicating that the translation couldn’t be made.
> So, I don’t know if that is a Duxbury problem, or an HTML problem.
> Would you happen to have a suggestion of a program to convert LaTeX to
> HTML that would use mathJax or MathML so I could read it with
> jaws/nvda/VoiceOver?
>
> Also, would you have specific sources or ways to filter the results when
> searching for a paper so it would show the HTML material or it isa matter
> of going through the results?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Kind regards.
>
> Lucas Nadolskis.
>
>
>
> > On Jan 23, 2022, at 10:52 PM, Jonathan Godfrey via BlindMath <
> blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > Jonathan
>
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Alex Jordan
Mathematics Instructor
Portland Community College