[BlindMath] Areas still to work on?

[kperry at blinksoft.com]

As a sighted person you may not know the speed in which your tools urn matters.  Recorded speech is not the best.  A lot of the symbols already speak fine with screen readers. The problem is more the graphical style of math that many authors use.  We are so much farther along than we were even 2 years ago.

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Subject: Re: [BlindMath] Areas still to work on?

Hi

This is a very interesting thread. I'm sighted, and reading your comments educates me. I'm trained as a pure mathematician.

Here are two comments regarding accessibility and mathematics as a formal and highly symbolic language.

The first is that the symbols used depend on the context. I think having a list of relevant symbols (and their meanings) will be a great help.

The second is that we could use pre-recorded or pre-generated speech for the most common symbols, instead of generic text to speech.

To summarize, I'm suggesting that we consider creating a mode specially designed for authoring and speaking mathematics. In this maths mode there can be a context, which is a short list of common or allowed symbols.

I hope this is clear. I welcome comments. Please you'd like some examples.

with best wishes
Jonathan
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