[pdftex] Read Out Loud function in Acrobat Reader for Dyslexic students

[Vasile Gaburici]

Use the accsupp package. It's pretty laborious though.

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Brad Burkman <BBurkman at lsmsa.edu> wrote:
> I teach high-school mathematics and write all of my curriculum materials
> in pdfTeX.  I am exploring the "Read Out Loud" function in Acrobat
> Reader for a dyslexic student who needs to have the questions read to
> her aloud.  We have people to help her, but I'd like to give her as much
> independence as possible.
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> Can I, using pdftex or pdflatex, add alternate text to tags in the
> reading order so that, while the student sees the result of $-{3\over 8}
> + {3 \over 4}$, it will read aloud as "negative three over eight plus
> three over four," not "thirty-three hyphen forty-eight"?  An Adobe
> tutorial tells me how to change the tags using Acrobat, but I want to do
> it in TeX.
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> Anyone done this or interested in exploring it?
>
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> Brad Burkman
>
> Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts
>
> bburkman at lsmsa.edu
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