[Blindmath] Accessible documents - alternate text in LaTeX

[Tochel Claire (NHS EDUCATION FOR SCOTLAND - EH2 1EL)]

Hi all,
I am new to this forum so I hope that my query is appropriate.

I work in a team which uses LaTeX to produce analytical reports for Government, Health Boards, healthcare professionals and the public in Scotland. We are trying to make our reports as Accessible as possible, but I have not been able to work out if it's possible to automatically build in alternate text to figures and tables. I know how to do this manually as post-processing in Adobe Acrobat, but it is time consuming and has to be done for each new version of a document, which is obviously very inefficient.

Do you know if there is a way of building this in to the LaTeX code?

I would also appreciate any other tips or advice when preparing technical reports in LaTeX to maximise their Accessibility to potential readers with visual impairments.

Thanks
Claire



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Claire Tochel
Analyst
c.tochel at nhs.net<mailto:c.tochel at nhs.net>
NHS Education for Scotland
www.nes.scot.nhs.uk
0131 313 8085


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