[texhax] TeX for the blind

[William Adams]

On Dec 8, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Philip TAYLOR wrote:

> I genuinely cannot see how a screen-reader, given only a formatted
> page image with no semantic markup, can possibly know that the "2"
> in x^2 + y+2 = z^2 should be pronounced "squared" whilst the
> "3" in this footnote^3 should be pronounced "see footnote 3" and
> the "-1" in this trigonometry (sin^-1) should be moved to the front
> of the "sin"(e) and pronounced "arc" !

I don't believe I indicated it would be a panacea, just a help (and  
that screen readers _really_ need the help).

Here's a quick dump of all the web sites I happened to dig up while  
searching:

http://ncam.wgbh.org/cdrom/guideline2000/6.html#622

http://www.tsbvi.edu/math/nemeth-trans.htm

http://mathforum.org/library/view/60901.html

William

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William Adams
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Fry Communications



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