Paul Bryan <[email protected]> writes:
> 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
>
hi Paul,
Emacspeak supports Orgmode yet but the original author of Emacspeak had
stepped down and thus Emacspeak is no longer maintained. If no new
maintainer is found, the support will get worse by the day.
--
With best regards
Arkadiusz Świętnicki
https://swietnicki.dev
