Aside: I very much hope that some members of the LaTeX Project will use this meeting as an opportunity to talk with Jonathan Godfrey about the arXiv accessibility project. I believe that by working together we can make things better.

The first TeX Hour after the 2023 northern summer holiday will be on Thursday 7 September, 6:30 to 7:30pm, BST (British Summer Time). All are welcome. We are fortunate to have Jonathan Godfrey as a special guest.

TeX Hour: Thursday 7 September, 6:30 to 7:30pm BST
URL: https://texhour.github.io/2023/09/07/access-stem-and-latex/
Zoom URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09

Last month Jonathan Godfrey travelled from New Zealand to the UK, to attend the 2023 R Project Sprint in person. He's still in the UK. He was kind enough to invite me to meet with him after the sprint. Last Sunday I met him at the University of Warwick, and we had several hours getting to know each other better, and discussing matters such as:

The importance of community
The R Journal moving to HTML
Creating HTML from the LaTeX source for R documentation
The arXiv accessibility initiative
For R, a browser-based REPL (read print eval loop)

At Thursday's TeX Hour Jonathan G and I will review and continue our conversation, and you are invited to listen and also join in if you wish. I'm looking forward to this.

In case you didn't know, Jonathan G is a blind senior lecturer in Statistics at Massey University, New Zealand. He's also a proficient R user, who prepares teaching materials using R-Markdown.

URLs:

2023 R Project Sprint: https://contributor.r-project.org/r-project-sprint-2023/

Jonathan Godfrey: https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=416430

JG's keynote at arxiv access forum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aIcO0vrrQE

with best regards

Jonathan