ConTeXt and the blind

[Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>]

I have very recently launched a new journal which has been designed on 
the assumption that it will exist in both electronic form and in 
print—hence, it is produced using ConTeXt and exists natively in PDF 
files. This morning I was asked by a colleague who is totally blind 
whether it would be possible to for him have ASCII or .txt files that 
he could use easily with his screen reading software. (My sense is that 
he may be able to use PDF files with this software, but that it is not 
easy.)

So, does anyone on the list have ideas about how to produce such files 
from the files I currently have in hand or any experience with this 
sort of problem? Is there, for instance, a way to strip away all the 
formatting commands from a ConTeXt source file automatically so as to 
leave an unencoded .txt file that I could send him? I gather that he 
can use .htm files, but so far as I can tell there is no path from a 
ConTeXt source file to an HTML file—at least, a specific query about 
this made recently on this list by someone else seems to have gone 
unanswered.

Cheers, Alan