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

[Hajas Dániel]

Hi All,

Thank you for all the tipps and suggestions. I will see what can be done to be good for everyone.

Chris, thanks for the tipp regarding changing the order of reading in Adobe. I never thought it might influence anything so didn't change it so far. It gives a significantly better readablility with JAWS for normal text.

Bests,
Daniel 
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From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Christoffer Telin via Blindmath
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Subject: Re: [Blindmath] accessible, searchable pdf generated from LaTeX, possible?

Hi
Text in pdf are usually readable at least with jaws and adobe reader. If the text is broken up for example only showing one word  on each line try to change the reading mode in adobe reader from infer from document to left to right top to bottom. This should work with pdf generated by LaTeX. 
Regards christoffer

Skickat från min iPhone

> 8 jun 2015 kl. 01:03 skrev White, Jason J via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org>:
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>> On Jun 7, 2015, at 16:29, Hajas Dániel via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> 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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