Assistive Debugging to Support Accessible Latex Based Document Authoring

Abstract

This software usability study aims towards evaluating our LaTeX based extension, created to assist blind researchers and writers, in terms of authoring both continuous and non-continuous text [2]. Our extension includes features like speech based error prompts and navigation to the error location which are expected to improve the LaTeX code debugging experience and increase writing productivity. Upon testing our extension, it is observed that a majority of both LaTeX novice and expert users preferred using MS Word for writing continuous text, while the LaTeX experts preferred our extension for writing mathematical content.