Tex code in TUG page

[Kaveh]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2022 at 02:39, Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Reinhard,
>
> I was under the impression that HTML is more accessible to the blind than
> TeX source.
> I could be wrong, but will look into it.
>
> The other thing you have to consider is that -- despite the name of the
> conference -- there
> people there, speakers included, that know exactly nothing about TeX, and
> for whom these
> codes have absolutely no meaning.
>

That is the main reason for my suggestion. Many novices might have heard of
TeX for the first time and would be confused at the mark-up.

At the same time I can see the point for accessibility. I made a point of
attending and recording the Math for the Blind conference conference in
Milan in 2008!
http://zeeba.tv/conferences/mathematics/math-blind-2008/


>
> Paulo Ney
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 6:24 PM Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at gmx.de>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2022-07-21 at 12:11:22 -0700, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
>>
>>  > Hi Kaveh,
>>  >
>>  > It has been remarked by a number of people. It is being fixed.
>>
>> Hi Paulo,
>> instead of providing a quick workaround now it would be more useful to
>> think about a better solution for next year, if necessary or desirable
>> at all.
>>
>> As TeX users we are accustomed those TeX control sequences anyway
>> because we use them daily.  Replacing \texttt{siunitx} by
>> <tt>siunitx</tt> just makes the HTML file *look* better.
>>
>> But for blind TeX users what we have now is even much more useful than
>> anything else one could imagine because they can read the markup
>> information on their Braille display.  They will not get this
>> information if \texttt{siunitx} is replaced by <tt>siunitx</tt>.  So
>> I'm not convinced that a "fix" makes everybody happy.
>>
>> Thus my recommendation is to leave things as they are now, at least
>> for the time being.  I've seen TeX macros in previous TUG conference
>> schedules too and nobody complained.  I don't understand why it's a
>> problem now.
>>
>> Regards,
>>   Reinhard
>>
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