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

[Hajas Dániel]

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the link but that is not the problem here. In any case I need to compile some of my documentation into pdf for the sighted research partners or anyone who might want to see our research documents. 

For the Blind users of course I have a number of other accessible formats. For example the html content of our site covers most of the material but also I shall have alternative text files as I said in my earlier e-mail.

Just want to bring most out of the pdf files as well.

Thanks,
Daniel 
-----Original Message-----
From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tim Arnold via Blindmath
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2015 9:35 PM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Cc: Tim Arnold
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] accessible, searchable pdf generated from LaTeX, possible?

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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