> and as for screen readers...well that's a valid point but screen readers don't work well for material with lots of equations anyway.
This is something that we’d like to change. There are many visually impaired students who need to learn mathematics the same as you and I.
My “eyes were opened” when I was working with a blind student in my class. The textbook I’d written in pretext (transpiled to pdf and HTML) could be read on his BrailleNote but some of the equations were wonky, so I rewrote them to work for everyone.
It would be better if we developed tools to make them work for everyone straight away, instead of relying on authors. That’s one of my career goals.
I think MathML (which has gotten much better in browsers, thanks to Igalia[1]) is a much better bet we have to make this possible than LaTex compiling to PDF.
This is something that we’d like to change. There are many visually impaired students who need to learn mathematics the same as you and I.
My “eyes were opened” when I was working with a blind student in my class. The textbook I’d written in pretext (transpiled to pdf and HTML) could be read on his BrailleNote but some of the equations were wonky, so I rewrote them to work for everyone.
It would be better if we developed tools to make them work for everyone straight away, instead of relying on authors. That’s one of my career goals.