[nfbcs] LaTeX and Accessible Documents

David Andrews dandrews at visi.com
Tue Dec 16 21:42:26 UTC 2014


You may also want to ask your question on the blind math list, as 
they have a lot of expertise over there, on this kind of thing, 
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindmath_nfbnet.org
to join.

Dave

At 11:18 PM 12/15/2014, you wrote:
>Good evening ladies and gentlemen,
>I am currently working on a free cryptography library called FCL. 
>Part of the materials generated from this project are a set of 
>english descriptions for the ciphers, block cipher modes, hash 
>functions, etc. I plan to distribute these with the project, and I 
>might compile them together and distribute them as documents on my 
>web site or something like that.
>
>Having run into the problem of accessibility of mathematical and 
>other tehcnical material first hand, I had hoped to make these 
>materials accessible. I used the LaTeX type setting system to write 
>these documents. I could simply provide the LaTeX source as an 
>option since the PDF's are not particularly accessible, or I could 
>do something else if people have suggestions on something that might 
>be better. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I could make a more 
>accessible end-product from my LaTeX sources? This information would 
>also be useful to me for situations where I want to share something 
>like an academic paper I wrote with my blind friends, as I use LaTeX 
>for those as well.





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