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[Jonathan Fine]

Thank you reinhard for your most helpful reply. Sent from my phone.

Jonathan

On Sat, 23 Jul 2022, 21:13 Reinhard Kotucha, <reinhard.kotucha at gmx.de>
wrote:

> On 2022-07-22 at 18:45:05 +0100, Jonathan Fine wrote:
>
>  > Just to let you know that I intend to use this thread as a
>  > one-slide case study for my talk Access and Accessibility at the
>  > TUG Conference. This talk will be at 16:45 pm UK time on Sunday. I
>  > won't mention names, but I might mention roles.
>
> Hi Jonathan,
> like Kaveh I have no problem if my name is mentioned.
>
> Maybe I should provide some background information regarding my
> statement.
>
> About 20 years ago a teacher and a blind schoolboy attended our local
> monthly TeX meeting at the university.  The teacher was employed by
> "Landesbildungszentrum für Blinde Niedersachsen (LBZB)", an
> organization which supports blind people's education in Lower Saxony.
>
> In the past blind pupils attended special schools.  The LBZB launched
> a pilot project where blind pupils attend regular schools, supported
> by a teacher of the LBZB.
>
> Blind pupils usually used Microsoft Word if only text is involved.
> For mathematics the situation is more difficult because formulas are
> two-dimensional and couldn't be displayed on a Braille line.  The
> solution was that the blind typed math formulas in LaTeX syntax.
> Since LaTeX (source code) formulas are one-dimesional they could
> easily be read on a Braille display.
>
> The LBZB-teacher helped whenever problems occurred with the
> translation from LaTeX to PDF.  Class exams were judged by the
> teachers of the regular schools, who had no idea about LaTeX at this
> time.
>
> Nowadays I assume that more teachers are familiar with LaTeX because
> they used it already during their own education.
>
> I must admit that I don't know very much about the requirements of
> visually impaired people and the tools that are available now.  I've
> heard about Nemeth but I actually don't know anything about it.
>
> After all, I've been told recently that the blind schoolboy I met
> about 20 years ago now has a doctoral degree in economics.
>
> Regards,
>   Reinhard
>
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