Sébastien Hinderer <[email protected]> writes: > > Understood. Just for the sake of completeness, let me say that as a > blind user my preference would be to have access to the original > document as I expect it to be muhc more readable than many derived > formats. I realise this may not be true for everybody, and also that > authors may not want to share their sources. I still wanted to bring > this to the conversation so that peoplealso have this possibility in > mind. For researhc papers and books for instance, I way prefer reading > LaTeX sources than anything else.
I'm curious how reading LaTeX source compares with reading org-mode source for blind users. Naively I would expect org-mode to be more suited to screen readers as it a lot less verbose, with much less boilerplate to parse or even to ignore. In the video conversation between Prot and Arkadiusz <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH5GKEgEGV0>, I recall some discussion about how emacspeak can use text properties to add emphasis. I presume that sort of thing would be easier in org-mode than in LaTeX - or at least that it would be easier to code. Of course, most academic articles will be written in LaTeX, so the above question is somewhat limited in scope. Side question: how does emacspeak interact with org-mode? In principle, emacspeak could have access to the parse tree for tight integration which could be quite powerful. For a potential separate thread: is there work org-mode could do to improve this? -- Paul
