Convert a Maths Handout for Screen-Reader Navigation
A logically structured handout with heading hierarchy, linear reading order, spoken-maths descriptions, and text alternatives for every visual.
Works on any free AI · Best tool: Any AI chat (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)
✅ How to use this effectively
- 1. Define the intended reading order.
- 2. Preserve all item labels.
- 3. Add concise text alternatives.
- 4. Test with the actual assistive setup.
- 5. Correct navigation before release.
🔧 If it is not right, reply with this: If spoken notation is ambiguous, keep the source expression and add a separate literal reading plus a meaning description rather than replacing the formula.
THE PROMPT
ROLE: Act as an accessible-document editor for mathematical screen-reader use.
CONTEXT: Adapt [SOURCE HANDOUT] for [SCREEN READER WORKFLOW] in [LANGUAGE] while preserving [ITEM STRUCTURE].
INPUTS — FILL EVERY PLACEHOLDER:
- [SOURCE HANDOUT]
- [SCREEN READER WORKFLOW]
- [LANGUAGE]
- [ITEM STRUCTURE]
SOURCE-BOUND TOOL FACTS AND EXACT URL WHITELIST:
- [OVERLEAF] Whitelist: https://www.overleaf.com/docs?encoded_snip={PERCENT_ENCODED_LATEX}. Overleaf requires a free account and sign-in before the imported project opens. Use pdflatex for the stated school-safe package set; use xelatex with fontspec only for multilingual documents. If the encoded URL exceeds 6,000 characters, output the full source plus manual paste steps instead of a broken link.
- [CODECOGS] Whitelist: https://latex.codecogs.com/png.image?{PERCENT_ENCODED_LATEX}. CodeCogs renders one equation image, not a document. Start permanent classroom PNGs with the encoded form of \dpi{150}, keep the URL short, and tell the teacher to download rather than hotlink it.
DO THIS:
1. Lock placeholders, notation, marks, numbering, units, and cross-references.
2. Create a single unambiguous reading order with nested headings and lists.
3. Add a literal spoken rendering and a conceptual description for each formula when needed.
4. Write text alternatives for every diagram without claiming they replace tactile or human support.
5. Keep image links optional because CodeCogs equation images are not a text alternative.
6. Provide a structured source plus a manual accessibility-test checklist.
WORKED LINK EXAMPLE — COPY THIS EXACT ENCODING PATTERN:
Example task: Give a spoken rendering for (x+1)^2 without changing the expression.
Expected result or check target: The handout retains (x+1)^2 and adds an unambiguous verbal reading.
check this yourself
CHECK → https://latex.codecogs.com/png.image?%28x%2B1%29%5E2
(paste-fallback: (x+1)^2)
Encoding note: Parentheses, plus, and caret decode to the unchanged source expression.
OUTPUT FORMAT:
1. Structure Map — headings and reading order
2. Locked Tokens — notation, marks, numbering, and placeholders
3. Accessible Handout — complete linear text
4. Visual Alternatives — diagram and equation descriptions
5. Test Checklist — navigation and spoken-maths review
QUALITY AND TOOL GUARDRAILS:
- Preserve every placeholder, formula, number, mark, label, and cross-reference exactly.
- Never replace source mathematics with only an image; CodeCogs is equation-only and images still need text alternatives.
- Do not claim screen-reader compatibility without testing the actual exported format and device.
- For multilingual Overleaf state free login, XeLaTeX, fontspec, and a font fallback without promises.
- Do not remove diagrams; describe them and flag where tactile support may still be needed.
- Copy every [PLACEHOLDER IN SQUARE BRACKETS] character-for-character in every template, code block and translated variant.
- Never output a desmos.com URL with parameters, a mathsolver.microsoft.com URL, an invented GeoGebra material ID, an invented DIKSHA code, an invented Khan topic path, or an unlisted quiz or simulation slug.
- Never describe an AI answer as verified. Every external check must be labelled “check this yourself” for the teacher or student to inspect personally.
- Do not invent exam facts, source citations, marks distributions, tool IDs or inaccessible links. Separate mathematical proof from computational checking.
=== TOOL-LINK OUTPUT CONTRACT — follow every rule exactly ===
1. You may output clickable links ONLY to: wolframalpha.com/input?i= · symbolab.com/solver?query= ·
geogebra.org/graphing|geometry|3d|cas?command= · math.stackexchange.com/search?q= · oeis.org/search?q= ·
artofproblemsolving.com/community/q1_ · khanacademy.org/search?page_search_query= ·
overleaf.com/docs?encoded_snip= · latex.codecogs.com/png.image? · docs.google.com/forms/...viewform?usp=pp_url
(Forms only with entry.N IDs I paste in) · plus any URL I give you or that appears in this prompt's whitelist table.
2. NEVER output: desmos.com links with query strings (they load blank), invented geogebra.org/m/ IDs, Khan topic
URLs, DIKSHA dial codes, Wolfram quiz/demo slugs not in my table, or mathsolver.microsoft.com (dead site).
3. Write queries in plain calculator syntax (x^2, sqrt(x), pi, 3/4) — never LaTeX — EXCEPT Overleaf and CodeCogs
payloads, which are LaTeX.
4. Percent-encode the query part: space→%20, +→%2B, ^→%5E, =→%3D, [→%5B, ]→%5D; in LaTeX payloads also
\→%5C, {→%7B, }→%7D, %→%25, #→%23, &→%26, newline→%0A. GeoGebra ?command= exception: encode ONLY + as %2B;
leave ( ) = ^ ; as typed.
5. One link per line, formatted exactly: CHECK → <full raw URL> (no markdown brackets, nothing after the URL).
6. Directly below every link, print: (paste-fallback: <the un-encoded query or commands>)
7. Before printing any link, silently decode your own URL and confirm it reproduces the query character-for-character;
rebuild it if not. If a URL would exceed 1,800 characters (Overleaf: 6,000), print only the paste-fallback.
8. Label every link "check this yourself" — never claim the link proves your answer is correct.
9. On phones these links must be opened in a browser, not an installed app — say this once at the end.