ahtsham58 / alap

A software tool equipped with TTS for accessible LaTeX-based document authoring and presentation for visually impaired people.

ALAP

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.

1. IDE

A user interface, which is developed and extended on TeXlipse plugin.

2. TTS

A text-to-speech module, consisting of language parsing for mathematical documentation, PDF accessibility, etc.

Related links:

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/

Publications

@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}
}