[BlindMath] Beamer PDF Accessibility

[peter.julien.rayner at gmail.com]

I've personally not seen a rendering of LaTeX mathematics that was
more accessible than the LaTeX code itself. Its inline form is close
enough to the spirit of braille mathematics that I found it pretty
easy to learn. Probably a different story for non-braille users
though.
cheers
Peter

Caitlin McKeown via BlindMath writes:
>Hello!
>
>I am wondering if anyone has any experience, suggestions, or templates for
>making Beamer PDFs accessible?
>
>For a little background, I work at a university and nearly all of our math
>and statistics faculty use Beamer to produce their lecture slides. For
>those (like me) who are unfamiliar with Beamer, it is a program used to
>convert LaTeX directly into presentation slides in PDF format. These slides
>are generated directly from LaTeX so all of the underlying code and text is
>there, but the output format from Beamer is a completely untagged PDF.
>Because of all of the math notation, remediating the slides with Acrobat is
>less than ideal, and feels like a step backwards when the LaTeX already
>exists. Our faculty would prefer either a different process or a different
>tool to make their content accessible using the LaTeX code they have
>already written.
>
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>Caitlin
>
>-- 
>
>Caitlin McKeown, Ph.D.
>
>Senior Instructional Designer
>
>Digital Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA)
>
>cjmckeow at ncsu.edu
>
>delta.ncsu.edu
>
>
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