[accessibility] An interesting discussion on SX

[Anna Capietto]

Dear Kevin, I am responsible for the Laboratory for research and
experimentation with novel assistive technologies for STEM "S.Polin", at
the Department of Mathematics of the University of Torino, Italy. Our
website is

http://www.integr-abile.unito.it/en/.

In 2018 we have developed the LaTeX package Axessibility, which enables a
user of screen reader/braille display to access the LaTeX code of a pdf
(coming from LaTeX). We also have dictionaries for Jaws and NVDA.

In case you are interested, you may have a look at the web page

http://www.integr-abile.unito.it/en/axessibility/

Please feel free to contact us through this email for any question/comment.
We are eager to obtain feedbacks from users like you.

Cordially
Anna



Il giorno sab 18 mag 2019 alle ore 15:31 Kevin Fjelsted <kfjelsted at gmail.com>
ha scritto:

> It would seem to me that since Latex is so structured already that
> converting to a Tased PDF should be very automatic? I am writing this
> observation without knowledge of the internals. One of the other problems
> with the PDF accessibility conundrum, is that screen reader software does
> not necessarily present accessible PDFS well at any rate. This is
> especially true for Mac Preview. Again, it would seem that Latex could
> shine at this because of the highly structure nature of the document
> source! For instance it is always clear when there is a table. Math
> equations that are written in Latex are truly known to be math equations,
> not much guess work as to the content type?
> I ask these questions from a challenge perspective.
> As a BLind person who has used Latex for my entire undergraduate document
> production experience in CSCI and now as a graduate student in the MBA
> program, Latex is truly a dream come true for formatting control. This is
> purely because of the command source approach where everything is distilled
> down to the creation of text. Text is quite manageable by screen reading
> software.
>
> Let’s take another point of view however: We also need accessible Braille
> to be available from Latex. Braille is complex composed of lots of
> formatting rules and two major codes, one for math and one for literal
> text. This doesn’t even cover graphics yet. Since joining this
> accessibility list I don’t believe I have seen any discussion of the
> overall accessibility issues i.e., we should have two views Braille and
> screen reader and they should be able to be generated out of the same
> document source!
> How does one proceed to understand what projects are active in this
> context?
> -Kevin
>
> > On May 16, 2019, at 6:54 PM, Boris Veytsman <borisv at lk.net> wrote:
> >
> > There is an ongoing discussion at TeX.sx about accessibility:
> > https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/491162.
> >
> > --
> > Good luck
> >
> > -Boris
> >
> > Brady's First Law of Problem Solving:
> >       When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more
> >       easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger
> >       have handled this?"
>
>
>

-- 
Anna Capietto
Prof. ordinario di Analisi Matematica
Responsabile del Laboratorio per la ricerca e la
sperimentazione di nuove tecnologie assisitve per le STEM "S.Polin"
Referente per la disabilità nel
Dipartimento di Matematica "G.Peano"
Università di Torino
http://www.integr-abile.unito.it/
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