Re: [orca-list] orca to read latex

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Her students are probably trying to read output not input.  I've been 
there.  It's hard to make out the math in a pdf document created with 
LaTeX with screen readers.


On 9/13/2014 7:27 AM, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You should look at emacspeak for the best speech based access to latex
> authoring.
>
> http://emacspeak.sf.net
>
> It provides solid speech support for various tex modes of emacs.
>
> I have also used vim's latex mode with Speakup.
>
> Or, if using refreshable braille display, brltty with either emacs or
> vim in a console is probably best.
>
> I'm unaware there's any particular support for latex in blind user
> oriented graphical AT such as Orca, and it's not the tool of choise for
> emacs and vim.
>
> Janina
>
> Paula Estrella writes:
> > Hello, I'm new to the list so I apologize if this topic has already
> > been discussed, in
> > that case point me to the right threads.
> >
> > We're trying to assist our blind students in computer science and at
> > the moment the option chosen is orca but it gets difficult when they
> > have to read maths in latex, so the question is: is there any orca
> > module to specifically read latex (in a more natural way than
> > literally)? if not, do you think it would be too difficult or of any
> > interest to contribute to orca by developing such a module?
> >
> > Thanks a lot for any information
> > Paula Estrella
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