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From: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
To: briangpowell <briangpowellms@gmail.com>
Cc: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>,
	 maciaschain@posteo.net, theophilusx@gmail.com,
	 emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org mode export accessibility
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 08:37:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p91edyxrl1x.fsf@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFm0skFBS=zrmMMz39-F=owtvWrZ8wxn0_w=FqDHtRqaQ=7EvQ@mail.gmail.com> (briangpowell's message of "Thu, 7 Jul 2022 10:18:25 -0400")

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briangpowell <briangpowellms@gmail.com> writes:


P.S. Please dont quote me out of context. I did not say pdftex and
pdflatex were not useful, I still rely on them heavily.
> "[I suspect that the exported documents can similarly be improved to
> reduce the amount of effort required from visually impaired users to
> read
> such documents. The question is what improvements can be made on
> Org side.]
>
> Best,
> Ihor"
>
> Very glad to hear from TV Raman, the creator of EmacSpeak,
>
> I'm not blind like TV but I was motivated to turn my a main OrgMode
> buffer into an audio desktop like TV's
>
> But now back to the topic; much agree with Ihor, we should focus on
> "what improvements can be made on OrgMode side"
>
> & TV's points are well made too: "pdftex and pdflatex were built in
> the late 90's"--very true & they were rarely useful
>
> Suggest OrgMode make changes aimed at the "Lowest Common Denominator"
> of accessibility--accessibility in the visual sense AND in the machine
> or program processable sense or more exactly the "document convertible
> sense"--I mean documents should be made firstly in a form that all
> computers can easily navigate & present on computer screens and/or
> audio desktops in addition to being readily able to print out
>
> TV's right, the usual pipeline of LaTeX->PDF can produce tagged &
> useful documents but can an end user easily copy and paste the
> document? How useful are pretty documents that run on proprietary
> systems? Many PDF's can make simple processes like this very hard or
> impossible--the documents can be very pretty but they can contain
> control characters & special characters & even malicious code
>
> Suggest OrgMode outputs focus on creating "Lowest Common Denominator"
> documents as output:
> TeXinfo docs should be used as the LCD doctype--suggest you focus on
> creating 1 document in Texinfo that you use to create all other sorts
> of documents, when possible:
>
> Pipeline should be more like
> OrgMode->Texinfo->TROFF||DTD/XML/HTML/XHTML->LaTeX/TeX->DVI||SVG->PS->PDF
>
>
> * TeXinfo: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/texinfo
> https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo
>
> ** "Texinfo uses a single source file to produce output in a number of
> formats, both online and printed (dvi, html, info, pdf, xml, etc.).
> This means that instead of writing different documents for online
> information and another for a printed manual, you need write only one
> document.  And when the work is revised, you need revise only that one
> document.  The Texinfo system is integrated well with GNU Emacs. 
>
> *** Texinfo docs can also be viewed & used by ALL end-users without
> any issues--regardless of the power of their computer or monitor or
> even if they're blind like TV Raman--he uses an audio desktop or
> EmacSpeak--and the same docs can be printed on any printer & remain
> navigable with "rn" & other simple news-reading software--or the
> "info" program
>
> * Output formats currently supported by Texinfo:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Output-Formats.html
> <=> Info,Text,HTML,DVI,PostScript{PS},PDF,DocBook,XML
>
> ** Related/useful may be: "latex2nemeth"--a LATEX to Braille/Nemeth,
> approach "Simple pictures in PSTricks are also supported in order to
> produce tactile graphics": https://ctan.org/pkg/latex2nemeth
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 3:53 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>     "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:
>
>     > 1. Accessibility as word used in isolation has now become mostly
>     >    meaningless, to be concrete one has to ask "Accessibility to
>     whom"? 
>     >
>     > 2. So in the following, everything I say is with respect to
>     users with
>     >    visual impairments.
>
>     This is exactly the perspective I was hoping to hear from you.
>     Though
>     this thread is not dedicated to visual impairments. (I guess you
>     also
>     did not touch the question of color blindness).
>
>     > 3. It's incorrect to define "Accessibility" in terms of a
>     specific
>     >    user access tool or technology -- that usage is marketing
>     jargon
>     >    for a specific Access Solution like a screenreader --- so I
>     refrain in general from
>     >    defining this in terms of Screenreaders.
>
>     Yet, in order to simplify the efforts needed to read a document
>     exported
>     from Org mode one needs to use some kind of tool/technology.
>     Unless a
>     common standard exist in this area, we have to support at least
>     the most
>     common Access Solutions (prioritizing Free software, if possible).
>
>     From you message, it does not look like there is any common
>     standard.
>
>     > With those meta-thoughts out of the way:
>     >
>     > A: Org-generated documents are mostly well-structured documents,
>     and ...
>     > B: The LaTeX->PDF pipeline *can* produce tagged PDF with respect
>     to ...
>     > C: pdftex and pdflatex were built in the late 90's by a student
>     in ...
>     > D: All that said, it is likely still easier to go from org->HTML
>     ...
>
>     Do I understand correctly that you have no issues with reading
>     documents
>     exported using current version of Org?
>
>     > E: Finally, note that in (D) I said "machine processable" not
>     > "Accessible"; machine-processable is a pre-requisite to
>     "repurpose "
>     > what you publish, and making  that result usable by different
>     user
>     > communities is a direct consequence of suche
>     machine-processability.
>
>     I understand. But one can similarly say that .org files are
>     "machine
>     processable" and Org export code is not strictly necessary. Yet,
>     it ends
>     up extremely useful in practice.
>
>     I suspect that the exported documents can similarly be improved to
>     reduce the amount of efforts required from visually impair users
>     to read
>     such documents. The question is what kinds improvements can be
>     made on
>     Org side.
>
>     Best,
>     Ihor
>

-- 

Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
7©4 Id: kg:/m/0285kf1  •0Ü8


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-07 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-23 14:30 About 'inline special blocks' Juan Manuel Macías
2022-05-23 15:20 ` Kaushal Modi
2022-05-23 21:06   ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-05-24  2:36     ` Tim Cross
2022-05-24  2:51       ` Timothy
2022-05-24  6:54         ` Eric S Fraga
2022-05-26  7:30           ` Christian Moe
2022-05-24 15:09         ` Max Nikulin
2022-05-25  7:22           ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-05-25 17:05             ` Max Nikulin
2022-05-26  2:54               ` Merging paragraphs separated by comment lines during export (was: About 'inline special blocks') Ihor Radchenko
2022-05-24  3:56       ` About 'inline special blocks' Ihor Radchenko
2022-05-24 14:05         ` João Pedro
2022-05-26  4:56           ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-05-26 11:30             ` João Pedro
2022-05-26 12:20               ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-05-26 17:35                 ` João Pedro
2022-05-26 21:22                   ` About opening issues vs email [Was: About 'inline special blocks'] Kaushal Modi
2022-05-27  4:24                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-05-27  4:36                     ` João Pedro
2022-05-25 13:55         ` About 'inline special blocks' Juan Manuel Macías
2022-06-17  6:28         ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-06-17 19:49           ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-06-19 12:47   ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-06-19 19:30     ` Christian Moe
2022-06-19 20:15       ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-06-19 22:18     ` Tim Cross
2022-06-20 16:57     ` Max Nikulin
2022-06-20 19:06       ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-06-21 16:39         ` Max Nikulin
2022-06-21 18:19           ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-06-20 22:46       ` Tim Cross
2022-06-26  4:07         ` Org mode export accessibility (was: About 'inline special blocks') Ihor Radchenko
2022-06-26  6:29           ` Tim Cross
2022-06-26 10:46             ` Org mode export accessibility Juan Manuel Macías
2022-06-26 10:54               ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-06-27 14:40                 ` T.V Raman
2022-06-30  7:53                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-07 14:18                     ` briangpowell
2022-07-07 14:42                       ` T.V Raman
2022-07-08  4:38                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-08 13:55                           ` T.V Raman
2022-07-09  3:39                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-09 13:20                               ` T.V Raman
2022-09-30 11:07                         ` Max Nikulin
2022-09-30 13:29                           ` T.V Raman
2022-09-30 16:43                             ` Max Nikulin
2022-09-30 16:55                               ` T.V Raman
2022-10-01  4:36                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-10-01 14:59                               ` T.V Raman
2022-10-02  2:54                               ` Org source in PDF (Re: Org mode export accessibility) Max Nikulin
2022-10-02  3:50                                 ` Timothy
2022-07-07 14:43                       ` Org mode export accessibility T.V Raman
2022-07-07 15:37                       ` T.V Raman [this message]
2022-07-08  4:33                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-08 13:54                         ` T.V Raman

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