[texhax] TeX for the blind

[Victor Ivrii]

On 12/11/06, Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de> wrote:
> 2006/12/11, Chris Rowley <C.A.Rowley at open.ac.uk>:
> > Actually, no one was asking anything of you in particular until you
> > gave us all the impression that you know everything and that all these
> > problems have been solved by `tagged pdf' ... they have not!
>
> OK, tagged pdf will not solve everything, but it's currently the only
> "working" technology (and you asked for the screen reader and tagged
> pdf). Math is sorely lacking there, and is also not really missed by
> e.g. the PDF/UA group. But also lacking is any participation by the
> TeX community, e.g. AMS.

As far as I know currently  there is no way to put tags via TeX. If
one needs to make many switches off/on using Acrobat  is not a good
option either. Note that actually Acrobat makes tags by itself
breaking the document into suspected blocks but also introducing
document structure. Only then  the user can select which blocks to be
read. I am afraid that to repeat this in TeX is almost impossible
task. If Adobe made this simpler... just allowing Read_on-Read_off
switches in pdf documents

As far as math is concerned attempts by AR to read it are completely
miserable and I would use voice annotation instead.


>
> AFAIK markup of math is hard; do we really want to go the MathML way?
>
> Btw: I'm wondering why nobody mentioned the TeX-math reader presented
> more than 10 years ago at a TeX conference. I forgot the name of the
> author. :-(

What about the exact name of the program?
>


PS I am trying to extend this discussion to pdftex mailing list which
is frequented by some very knowledgeable folks

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Victor Ivrii, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
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