[accessibility] An interesting discussion on SX

[Anna Capietto]

Dear Kevin, Axessibility can be obtained and installed as any other LaTeX
package from our web site
http://www.integr-abile.unito.it/axessibility/
or directly from
https://ctan.org/pkg/axessibility

Thanks for your interest,
Cordially
Anna Capietto

Il giorno ven 7 giu 2019 alle ore 11:24 Kevin Fjelsted <kfjelsted at gmail.com>
ha scritto:

> Is there a step by step document that would permit me to understand how to
> install a version of Axessibility for reading Latex Math oriented
> documents from the Latex source?
>
> -Kevin
>
>
> On May 27, 2019, at 10:19 AM, Anna Capietto <anna.capietto at unito.it>
> wrote:
>
> 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/
>
>
>

-- 
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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