<div dir="auto">Thank you reinhard for your most helpful reply. Sent from my phone. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jonathan </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 23 Jul 2022, 21:13 Reinhard Kotucha, <<a href="mailto:reinhard.kotucha@gmx.de">reinhard.kotucha@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2022-07-22 at 18:45:05 +0100, Jonathan Fine wrote:<br>
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> Just to let you know that I intend to use this thread as a<br>
> one-slide case study for my talk Access and Accessibility at the<br>
> TUG Conference. This talk will be at 16:45 pm UK time on Sunday. I<br>
> won't mention names, but I might mention roles.<br>
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Hi Jonathan,<br>
like Kaveh I have no problem if my name is mentioned.<br>
<br>
Maybe I should provide some background information regarding my<br>
statement.<br>
<br>
About 20 years ago a teacher and a blind schoolboy attended our local<br>
monthly TeX meeting at the university. The teacher was employed by<br>
"Landesbildungszentrum für Blinde Niedersachsen (LBZB)", an<br>
organization which supports blind people's education in Lower Saxony.<br>
<br>
In the past blind pupils attended special schools. The LBZB launched<br>
a pilot project where blind pupils attend regular schools, supported<br>
by a teacher of the LBZB.<br>
<br>
Blind pupils usually used Microsoft Word if only text is involved.<br>
For mathematics the situation is more difficult because formulas are<br>
two-dimensional and couldn't be displayed on a Braille line. The<br>
solution was that the blind typed math formulas in LaTeX syntax.<br>
Since LaTeX (source code) formulas are one-dimesional they could<br>
easily be read on a Braille display.<br>
<br>
The LBZB-teacher helped whenever problems occurred with the<br>
translation from LaTeX to PDF. Class exams were judged by the<br>
teachers of the regular schools, who had no idea about LaTeX at this<br>
time.<br>
<br>
Nowadays I assume that more teachers are familiar with LaTeX because<br>
they used it already during their own education.<br>
<br>
I must admit that I don't know very much about the requirements of<br>
visually impaired people and the tools that are available now. I've<br>
heard about Nemeth but I actually don't know anything about it. <br>
<br>
After all, I've been told recently that the blind schoolboy I met<br>
about 20 years ago now has a doctoral degree in economics.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard<br>
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