[BlindMath] Accessible PDFs from LaTeX

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
Pandoc with the Prince package produces very nice PDFs from Markdown, I'm
not sure about from LaTeX, but I'm sure they will look nice from LaTeX as
well:
https://www.princexml.com/
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>


On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 5:59 AM White, Jason J via BlindMath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> To the best of my knowledge, these packages are rather experimental at the
> moment and require explicit manual tagging of the content using LaTeX
> macros that generate the PDF structure tree. There's a mailing list, and
> packages are under development, but they aren't at the point of working on
> typical LaTeX documents without a lot of extra work on the author's part.
>
> What I normally do as a pragmatic solution is to generate an HTML version
> alongside the PDF, using packages such as lwarp or TeX4HT. I take the view
> that HTML of reasonable quality is more accessible, on more platforms and
> devices, than tagged PDF is. My testing indicates that only users of Adobe
> Reader under Windows would benefit from PDF tagging anyway at the moment,
> and that it's simply ignored by other PDF readers. So, unless you're
> writing for a publication that insists on receiving tagged PDF, I would
> recommend generating HTML as your accessible format. For example, you can
> write a makefile that keeps both the PDF and HTML versions up to date.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindMath <blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Bert Van
> Landeghem via BlindMath
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 6:24 AM
> To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Bert Van Landeghem <b.vanlandeghem at sheffield.ac.uk>
> Subject: [BlindMath] Accessible PDFs from LaTeX
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> The content of a LateX document can be read with a braille display and
> allows screenreader users to access the mathematical content. However, the
> compiled output (such as PDFs) are generally not accessible if no special
> attention is given to the issue. We then first think about the formulae
> which cannot be read with a braille display, but these PDFs are also not
> tagged at least if you use the standard packages. I know that a lot has
> happened over the last years in this field, and that several packages are
> available to tag PDFs and to make formulae accessible in PDFs and other
> output formats. The only problem is that I do not find a comprehensive
> overview of the state-of-the-art. Could somebody point me to the most
> reliable and comprehensive packages that are available in this field to
> date?
>
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Bert
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