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

[White, Jason J]

> On Jun 7, 2015, at 16:29, Hajas Dániel via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> 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 you acknowledge in a later post, you can’t make the mathematical content accessible in the PDF file. However, the text should be readable with a screen reader. Are you using pdflatex to generate the PDF files? If not, I would suggest it as the best tool to use. In my experience, the text portions of the generated PDF files are somewhat accessible with a screen reader, although they may include characters that won’t be recognized. Tables may not be accessible either, but that is true of untagged PDF documents in general.

Also, I understand that Context can generate tagged PDF - an option worth exploring if you need to create more accessible PDF documents (again, the mathematics won’t be accessible though). This requires using Context rather than LaTeX; both rely on an underlying TeX typesetting system.


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