Emacspeak discussion list

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 AT posteo.net>]

Hello,

I am forwarding the below request from Org mailing list.
AFAIR, Emacspeak recommends simple pdf2text for reading pdfs in Emacs,
but I am not sure how good or bad the result is, and whether having
PDF/UA2-compliant PDF helps.

We are looking to improve Org LaTeX export to produce screen
reader-friendly accessible documents that can stick to PDF/UA2 standard.
However, we are not experts in the field, and we need help from people
more familiar with accessibility standards.

In particular, we want:

1. Reference LaTeX (lualatex and pdflatex) documents that showcase how
   to generate accessible PDFs. It is especially important for pdflatex
   where the PDF tagging support is limited and special tricks may be
   needed to produce accessible documents.

2. General information about various edge cases we need to be aware of.
   In latex in particular and for accessibility in general

3. Useful latex packages that can help in this area

Pedro, the ox-latex maintainer, created a repository where we will
collect various examples. See https://codeberg.org/paaguti/pdf-ua2-tests

Feel free to either write here, on the list, or create issues on
codeberg with your suggestions.

Best regards,
Ihor

"Pedro A. Aranda" <paaguti AT gmail.com> writes:

> there's been going on WRT accessibility in the list recently.
> I have created a repo in my codeberg to collect all our efforts and 
> tests in this field. The objective would be to integrate as much as 
> possible in the LaTeX exporter and to feed the discussion with the 
> pdflatex maintainers, showing concrete examples of what doesn't work as 
> needed.
>
> Currently I have uploaded an extended version of the ltx-talk Test 
> presentation and a first concept for a pdflatex with a German document.
> Feel free to clone and contribute.
>
> Please send me PRs with your thoughts and tests.

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