Re: [orca-list] orca to read latex

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Yes, for output one would be better served by MathML.

Unfortunatly, I believe the only good MathML readers for blind users are
proprietary applications running MS Windows:

http://www.dessci.com


Browser support for MathML has been going backwards in recent years with
Google pulling support from Blink.

Janina



Alex Midence writes:
> 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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