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Subject: Obstacles to accessible TeX: Thur 12 Aug 6:30 to 7:30pm UK time
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by: Jonathan Fine - Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:33 UTC

Summary: Obstacles to accessible TeX this Thursday 12 Aug, 6:30 to 7:30pm UK time.
URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09
Links to 8 accessibility talks at recent TeX conference. Topics for TeX Hour, to the end of August.

At the TeX Conference last weekend there were 8 talks that focussed on accessibility. I think that's a record. The subject of the TeX Hour this Thursday is "Obstacles to Accessible TeX". This includes technical, social and human problems. Sharing experience and a fair partnership between blind and sighted are crucial for avoiding and removing obstacles.

One of the talks is a 30 minute conversation between Jonathan Godfrey and Jana Schroeder, both of whom are blind. I had the honor of facilitating this conversation. Even if you don't go to the TeX Hour, I think it's well worth listening to. It's available at
https://youtu.be/KNLJwjKg7EM

Here are the TeX Hour details:

Date and time: Thursday 12 August, 6.30 to 7.30pm UK time.
UK time now: https://time.is/UK.
Zoom URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09
Meeting ID: 785 5125 5396
Passcode: knuth

The URLs of all 8 talks are below, in the Appendix. I particularly recommend the talk on tactile mathematics by Kolesnikov, Maneki, Cantino, Beezer, and Volker Sorge
https://youtu.be/laPT8mmz8ZA?t=22442

TeX Hours are always Thursday 6:30 to 7:30pm UK time. Future TeX Hours are
Thursday 19 Aug: XML to TeX to PDF - when PDF is one of many rendering of XML
Thursday 26 Aug: Portable TeX Documents - reducing and resolving dependencies of TeX source

with best regards

Jonathan

Appendix: Links to the 8 accessibility talks at 2021 TeX Conference

Andreas Papasalouros & Antonis Tsolomitis
latex2nemeth: A direct LaTeX-to-Braille Transcribing Tool
https://youtu.be/SZHIeevyo3U?t=14182

Ulrike Fischer
On the road to tagged PDF: about StructElem, Marked Content, PDF/A and squeezed Bärs
https://youtu.be/SZHIeevyo3U?t=16985

Frank Mittelbach
Taming the beast — Advances in paragraph tagging with pdfTeX and XeTeX
https://youtu.be/SZHIeevyo3U?t=19551

Jana Schroeder and Jonathan Godfrey ( host Jonathan Fine)
Code and math in the dark
https://youtu.be/KNLJwjKg7EM

Keiran Harcombe & Boris Veytsman
Creating TeXLive VPAT statement
https://youtu.be/laPT8mmz8ZA?t=20010

Alexei Kolesnikov, Al Maneki, Michael Cantino, Rob Beezer, Volker Sorge
Tactile mathematics: Enabling Sighted and Blind People to Share Mathematical Experience
https://youtu.be/laPT8mmz8ZA?t=22442

Michael Nolan, Dr. Todd Pagano, Suhas Chikkanaravangala Vijayakumar, Rahul Jaiswal
Publishing for all: Using LaTeX to help improve the accessibility of an open-access journal
[This talk is split over 2 URLs.]
https://youtu.be/laPT8mmz8ZA?t=25189
https://youtu.be/GAGglH-cWcE?t=0

Ross Moore & Tom Price
Accessible research reports; case study, including acronyms and glossaries
https://youtu.be/GAGglH-cWcE?t=5600

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