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Accessible math is not yet a solved problem. Every day blind persons encounter problems that could be avoided. Recent progress include MathJax, lwarp, PreText and work led by Chris Hughes and Volker Sorge. And the LaTeX team has started a multi-year project to make its PDF output more accessible.
Tomorrow (Thursday) the TeX Hour will focus on relations between these and similar projects. The LaTeX project depends on research into how to best enable math accessibility in PDF. The previously mentioned work is a good starting point for this research. And using HTML as the platform will allow an
Summary: Invitation to TeX Hour to relate current work to your dependency on research into math accessibility.
I intend at this Thursday's zoom TeX Hour to explore the multi-year LaTeX project to fully and naturally support the creation of structured documents. I'll focus on how this project relates to improving blind access to math prior to the completion of your project. As you know, there's already much prior and continuing work in this area.
This year I met Jana Schroeder, a blind person forced to change jobs as part of the social cost of Covid. Her outsider experience of computer coding training became a wish to make things better. She has applied for a Holman Prize ($25,000 over a year) to fund this. She's also set up a survey to reach and know better those with similar wishes.
The topic for tomorrow's TeX Hour is bibliographies for beginners. We're pleased to welcome Patrick Daly, author of the widely used natbib package. He'll give us the history of natbib, and answer questions. The focus will be on the Beginner experience.
The meeting is Thursday 29 April, 6:30 to 7:30pm UK time. The time now in the UK is at https://www.google.com/search?q=uk+time. The zoom link for the meeting is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09
