[BlindRUG] Latex and Rmarkdown

[Jooyoung]

Hi Nicholas,

Glad to hear that you have succeeded.

FYI, LaTeX output in PDF by its nature does not offer a screen
reader-friendly accessibility.

That's not the matter of which screen reader you employ.

The best practice when it comes to Math output accessibility is using
MathML.

Try to render your Rmd source into an HTML output. You may want to install
Math Player plug-in if you are using NVDA. JAWS relies on MathJax so you
won't have to install any additional components if you are using JAWS.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

JY


 -----Original Message-----
From: BlindRUG [mailto:blindrug-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Nicholas J
via BlindRUG
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 4:48 PM
To: Blind R Users Group <blindrug at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Nicholas J <314nick15 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BlindRUG] Latex and Rmarkdown

Hello,

Thank you for the responses JooYoung. I got the rMarkdown file to render
now. I then started having trouble reading the latex formulas with NVDA. I
quickly found out Jaws is better to use. Thank you for all the help.

Thank you,
Nicholas

> On Sep 13, 2017, at 12:12 AM, Jooyoung <jooyoung at psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi again Nicholas,
> 
> Just in case you haven't installed Pandoc on your system yet, please 
> use the following code to install the latest Pandoc:
> 
> # installing/loading the package:
> if(!require(installr)) { install.packages("installr"); 
> require(installr)} #load / install+load installr
>  
> # Installing pandoc
> install.pandoc()
> 
> If it does not work, please provide us with the error message.
> 
> Best,
> 
> JooYoung
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindRUG [mailto:blindrug-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
> Nicholas J via BlindRUG
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 9:37 PM
> To: blindrug at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Nicholas J <314nick15 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [BlindRUG] Latex and Rmarkdown
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have been using rMarkdown and I am trying to also use latex in it. I 
> installed MikTex, but I am still not able to get output from the 
> rMarkdown files. I am getting a pandoc error. How would I fix this?
> 
> Thank you,
> Nicholas
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