A software tool equipped with TTS for accessible LaTeX-based document authoring and presentation for visually impaired people.
We have two main modules of this project.
A user interface, which is developed and extended on TeXlipse plugin.
A text-to-speech module, consisting of language parsing for mathematical documentation, PDF accessibility, etc.
https://github.com/alaplums?tab=repositories
A working copy of the complete tool, installation guidelines, and overall tool documentation https://alap.lums.edu.pk/index.php/downloads/
@inproceedings{manzoor2019alap,
title={ALAP: Accessible LaTeX based mathematical document authoring and presentation},
author={Manzoor, Ahtsham and Arooj, Safa and Zulfiqar, Shaban and Parvez, Murayyiam and Shahid, Suleman and Karim, Asim},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
pages={1--12},
year={2019}
}
@inproceedings{manzoor2018assistive,
title={Assistive Debugging to Support Accessible Latex Based Document Authoring},
author={Manzoor, Ahtsham and Parvez, Murayyiam and Shahid, Suleman and Karim, Asim},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility},
pages={432--434},
year={2018}
}