[BlindMath] STEM author access: Online meeting: Thu 1 Dec, 6:30 to 8:30pm BST (UK time)

[vincentfmartin2020 at gmail.com]

I'm interested.  
Vincent Martin
Vincentfmartin2020 at gmail.com


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Subject: [BlindMath] STEM author access: Online meeting: Thu 1 Dec, 6:30 to 8:30pm BST (UK time)

Hello

Authoring accessible STEM documents with confidence and independence can be hard especially if you’re blind and also if you don’t know which tools are the best ones to use.

On Thursday 1 December, 6:30 t o 8:30pm BST (ie UK) time there'll be a two hour meeting / workshop / panel discussion on this topic. The main speaker will be Jonathan Godfrey, who is a senior lecturer in Statistics who is also blind. He will be sharing his experience. After starting with LaTeX he now uses the R-statistics package and its markdown tools.

We invite other potential speakers, particularly those with disabilities or with responsibilities for supporting such persons to contact us. It is intended that this be the first of several such meetings.

The arxiv.org is a massive online repository of STEM preprints, mostly authored in LaTeX and generated into PDF upon submission. They are doing the research and planning work now to be able to offer papers in a more accessible form. Engaging the author will be one facet of this effort. This STEM author access meeting and its successors are intended to complement and provide mutual support for the work of the arxiv team.

If you're interested in this meeting, either as participant or speaker please do get in touch directly, or by responding to this message on the list. This meeting also has a web page which will be updated from time to time.
https://texhour.github.io/2022/12/01/stem-author-access

I have been running the TeX Hour, a weekly video meeting, for two years now. I used to work as the LaTeX Officer at the Open University in the UK, with technical responsibility for production of math and upper-level physics modules. I'm now retired and as a hobby developing the capabilities and ease of use of the TeX mathematical typesetting system.

with best regards

Jonathan Fine
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