Post Date
Apr 25 2024

INTEGRA: Capacity Building in Higher Education

The main objective of this project was to develop an opensource system which supports descriptive narration of the mathematical content within a PDF file. Popular screen readers like JAWS and NVDA are incapable of reading mathematical notation and various other symbols. Hence, in this project an Accessible LaTeX-based Authoring and Presentation (ALAP) was developed which extends an open-source Eclipse plugin “TeXlipse” and is integrated with Microsoft’s text to speech API. Using ALAP, blind users can generate and understand LaTeX based documents comprising of even advanced math independently.