[Blindmath] accessible, searchable pdf generated from LaTeX, possible?

[Tim Arnold]

Hi Daniel,
As far as I know, PDFs are not very accessible. Since you are working with
LaTeX files, you might try this site to convert to html/mathml:

http://convertlatex.com

Let me know if you have problems with the site.
thanks,
--Tim


On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Hajas Dániel <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I would like to ask for your advice and help in converting some pdf
> documents into accessible pdf files.
>
>
>
> I have a few documents that I created using LaTeX and compiled into pdf.
> The
> files have chapters, sections, mainly text, some lists, tables, figures and
> a bit of mathematical equations in them as well. The problem is that the
> compiled pdfs are totally inaccessible. The text just falls apart when I
> try
> to read it with a screen reader.
>
>
>
> As I am making these documents publicly available and blind users might
> come
> across it as well, I would like to make the pdfs as accessible as possible.
> Probably the maths can not be which should not be a problem as I can
> publish
> a LaTeX source file with the relevant maths in it, however I would like to
> make the rest of the articles to be searchable. Meaning the text appears
> nicely, figure captions are readable well, lists and tables sound as they
> should using JAWS or any other screen reader.
>
>
>
> Do I need to do something before compiling a source into pdf or is it
> possible somehow to label the ready pdfs and make them more readable?
>
>
>
> I am planning on publishing the same files in alternative formats such as
> .doc, .txt, audio formats etc aside the good looking pdf for sighted people
> but still I wish to have the latter one accessible as much as possible.
>
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
>
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