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Accessible open textbooks in math-heavy disciplines
The challenge The authoring platform of choice in many math-heavy disciplines is LaTeX. It produces typeset documents of excellent quality and handles formulas and mathematical diagrams extremely w…
In math-heavy disciplines, the widespread reliance on LaTeX and PDF only for producing OERs poses a unique challenge (e.g., only about half of the textbooks on the American Institute for Mathematics list are provided in HTML). Example: Abstract Algebra Markdown is a simple markup language that can easily be converted to other formats (including HTML, LaTeX, PDF, and Word) using the pandoc package. Develop a non-visual representation of formal proofs and rewrite the code to produce them so that LaTeXML and BookML could a) display them on the HTML version cleanly using CSS and b) screen readers could provide the missing visual information in textual (i.e., auditory) form.
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