[Haskell-cafe] A "real" Haskell Cookbook

[P. R. Stanley]

>>As a tip for anyone involved in writing and publishing scientific
>>materials on the web, unless the maths is either written without any
>>funny symbols or, better still, typeset in latex, it is not
>>accessible to a screen-reader.
>
>I was under the impression that modern screen readers could pronounce
>Unicode characters by looking up their name. I.e., your   would
>get read as 'Non-breaking space' (perhaps a bad example, this one
>wouldn't want to be read out due to its abuse as a layout tool, which
>would make reading old pages very awkward).
>
>I don't see how images are going to be much better? I suppose <math>
>images do, on MediaWiki, have an alt text which is their LaTeX, but
>I'd hate to have to have that read to me.




>         I think latex is the perfect solution to the problem. It is 
> perhaps the only 100 percent accessible medium available right now. 
> It doesn't require any special software to read. All it needs is a 
> simple text editor.


>Latex is a well-established tool/medium in the world-wide scientific 
>community and therefore its inclusion in the Haskell wikibook or any 
>other scientific document along with the unicode characters and 
>image files would be potentially beneficial to everyone.
Paul



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