Hi :) Just forwarding Christophe's response initial response to the list as requested. Err, Bcc'd it to Christophe just to keep him in the loop. Regards from Tom :)
--- On Tue, 10/4/12, [email protected] <hidden> wrote: From: [email protected] <hidden> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Math and accessibility for the visually impaired To: "Tom Davies" <[email protected]> Cc: "Christophe Strobbe" <hidden> Date: Tuesday, 10 April, 2012, 10:43 Hi Tom, Can you forward this to the list for me? I am not aware of a standard for alt text for math equations. What I have seen so far is that the alt text depends on the target audience. Many higher education institutions in Europe use LaTeX for equations, even though it is not a format developed with accessibility in mind. So in that context, using LaTeX as a text alternative is often considered acceptable. A few years ago, the @Science network (an EU-funded project) looked into this type of questions and gathered information on practices in Europe; you can find their guidelines at <http://www.ascience-thematic.net/en/guidelines>. Another place to ask this kind of question - at least if you are on LinkedIn - is the Math Accessibility Professionals group on LinkedIn. Exporting Impress presentations to PDF won't make them more accessible, quite the obverse, since text alternatives are lost: <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34135>. Best regards, Christophe From: Tom Davies <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; protonpusher <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 10:56 Subject: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: [libreoffice-users] Math and accessibility for the visually impaired Hi :) I have forwarded this to the accessibility list which is usually faster and better at answering these problems than the Users List. Unfortunately protonpusher is not subscribed to the Accessibility List (i think) so please CC replies directly to him/her. Thanks and regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 10/4/12, protonpusher <[email protected]> wrote: From: protonpusher <[email protected]> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Math and accessibility for the visually impaired To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 10 April, 2012, 5:01 I am looking for some guidance with math equations in Impress presentations, taking into account accessibility requirements. I am using LibreOffice on Ubuntu. Also a consideration is that the presentations would be converted to pdf as well. My understanding is that description attached to the equation would serve as an alt tag when I convert to pdf. Where I am sort of stumped is what to put in the description. One though was to copy the Math markup to the description. However I am not actually sure how visually impaired students would be able to use this. I played around with Orca, but could not get it to read the equation in either the original Impress presentation, or in the pdf output. So, 1) Am I going in the right direction putting the LO Math markup in the equation description, and 2) How would I read the description in the Impress presentation if I were visually impaired? -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
