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A comment on Ask HN: Blind programmers, what can I do to make my code easier for you?.

Re:Ask HN: Blind programmers, what can I do to make my code ... by DoctorOetker on Sunday November 18, 2018 @11:48AM (#18481226)
I often wonder how blind people deal with PDF's in general, and scientific articles (sometimes scanned, or pixel rendered) in specific? Or are they effectively locked out from reading scientific papers?
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Re:Ask HN: Blind programmers, what can I do to make my code ... by OldHand2018 on Sunday November 18, 2018 @11:56AM (#18481274)
Ask for the tex file.
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Re:Ask HN: Blind programmers, what can I do to make my code ... by DoctorOetker on Sunday November 18, 2018 @12:47PM (#18481568)
of course not every paper has an associated tex file, ... some of them were supposedly even written before Donald Knuth was born...
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