I tried the copy link option in the context menu for Safari. It should have given the direct link but I got that instead. sometimes, being blind can be a real Pain in the backside.
I hope that was a text based pdf. the pdf app I use here (Safari) will spit a blank page at me in voiceover if its graphical. thanks for shortening those links for me. also, I corrected my email so that it should send from here in the future. -eric On Jul 27, 2012, at 8:25 AM, ropers wrote: > On 27 July 2012 14:50, Eric Oyen <technomage.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> a braille API that works in Linux and all flavors of BSD: > <snip>The google links that you're quoted above seem quite unwieldy here, > though maybe you just ended up sending those due to limitations of > your environment and/or (assistive) tools. Stripped from all the > unwieldy google stuff, this particular link becomes: > > http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/13/59/46/TEX/thibault-hinderer-icta-2007.tex > > I found that uncomfortable to read, especially as a pampered sighted > person used to pretty-printed output. I however had problems > converting it to anything I would consider "pretty"; I found that it > depended on this class file: > > http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/13/59/46/TEX/IEEEconf.cls > > Even with that, I didn't quite manage with OpenBSD (there seems to be > no pdftex/pdflatex 386 port). Using my Ubuntu box, I converted the > above tex file to a PDF, which I've taken the liberty to put here: > http://ompldr.org/vZXcxYg (How are PDF files for you? Do your screen > readers deem them edible?) > > regards, > Ian
