Timeline for Revisiting producing structured PDFs from LaTeX
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:35 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://tex.stackexchange.com/ with https://tex.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Aug 1, 2014 at 0:37 | answer | added | Andy Clifton | timeline score: 22 | |
| May 30, 2014 at 16:01 | answer | added | Aditya | timeline score: 22 | |
| S May 16, 2014 at 12:57 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| S May 16, 2014 at 12:57 | history | notice removed | CommunityBot | ||
| May 11, 2014 at 0:29 | comment | added | cfr | According to accessibility.sty it is distributed under a licence contained in access.tex which I can't find and may be distributed only with that file. According to accessibility.sty it is licensed under the LPPL. So there are conflicting licence statements which probably mean it is illegal to do much with it. (Or course, if access.tex were available, that might say something consistent with LPPL but it is hard to tell otherwise.) It is unfortunate that this seems not to have been uploaded to CTAN or even made clearly available. | |
| May 9, 2014 at 8:17 | comment | added | michal.h21 | it is possible to use tex4ht to generate xml formats suited for screen readers cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/laspeak. other option is to make html file with mathml for math. latter option is probably better, as html and mathml should be supported well with current screen readers | |
| May 8, 2014 at 22:39 | history | edited | Andy Clifton | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Freshened up the question after someone stuck a bounty on it |
| S May 8, 2014 at 9:29 | history | bounty started | CommunityBot | ||
| S May 8, 2014 at 9:29 | history | notice added | user35260 | Draw attention | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 4:56 | comment | added | cfr | If I ever need to produce accessible documentation, I'm going to have to use something other than TeX, I think. The gold standard seems to be Word (or was a year or two ago). What seems odd about this, when I think about it, is that semantic markup ought to be more amenable, although I think that you do probably have to write your Word document in a particular way for it to work (i.e. use styles etc. and not just do it visually). I keep hoping there'll be a solution by the time somebody comes along who needs me to do this... | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 4:56 | comment | added | cfr | @DavidHammen I read the comments as suggesting that not much work was being done on this. Certainly the people posting here are not among those they mention as having touched this. (I am probably not the only one who would have no clue how to do it, although perhaps I underestimate the resources of the average commentator on this question.) | |
| Jan 22, 2014 at 3:41 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jan 18, 2014 at 19:59 | comment | added | David Hammen | Glad to know you guys are still working on addressing the accessibility issue. BTW, I flew my rather simple idea of using the LaTeX code as written by the document author as the alt text for an equation by an unsighted mathematician colleague. He loved the idea. | |
| Sep 30, 2013 at 23:58 | comment | added | Andy Clifton | @ppr: Hyperref gives me some of what I need, but I would need to build a framework to use hyperref to then construct the document structure. I think there are other options that might be simpler, which is what I would like to find. | |
| Sep 30, 2013 at 22:27 | comment | added | ppr | You could look at the hyperref package (ctan.org/pkg/hyperref). | |
| Aug 15, 2013 at 10:20 | comment | added | Martin Schröder | @LostBrit: Yes, that's what I meant. Thanks. | |
| Aug 13, 2013 at 20:20 | comment | added | Andy Clifton | @MartinSchröder: Do you mean the accessibility package? That's available again at babs.gmxhome.de/download/da_pdftex/accessibility.sty with (german) documentation at babs.gmxhome.de/download/da_pdftex/dok_pdf.pdf. This is the closest thing I've seen to a solution (single package, transparent to authors and passes most of the PDF tests). I'm going to put some time into that as a possible solution. I understand that the package has also been submitted to CTAN, so there might be a "formal", licensed, release as well. | |
| S Jul 28, 2013 at 21:42 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| S Jul 28, 2013 at 21:42 | history | notice removed | CommunityBot | ||
| Jul 22, 2013 at 9:27 | comment | added | Martin Schröder | @LostBrit: There is not much new; certainly no working solution. There is a german computer science masters thesis from ca. 2007 which shows a fairly complete solution; some german people are looking into it. But no developer has stepped forward as of now. | |
| Jul 22, 2013 at 9:24 | history | edited | Martin Schröder | edited tags | |
| Jul 21, 2013 at 0:48 | comment | added | Vedran Šego | I don't think anyone will try to convince you of anything. The patch (I've seen it recommended for TexLive 2010 somewhere) seems the only way to accomplish what you want. However, if you do decide to try it out on your own, I suggest trying on a non-live system, maybe one installed solely for this test, i.e., in a virtual box. Good luck! | |
| Jul 21, 2013 at 0:11 | comment | added | Andy Clifton | @VedranŠego. Thanks for the suggestion. I was aware of the patch but patching tex doesn't really pass my requirement for something that's transparent to the user and works with Tex Live 2012. That said, if you wanted to propose this as an answer, maybe others can build on this and convince me that this is the solution? | |
| Jul 20, 2013 at 23:47 | comment | added | Vedran Šego | Did you try this patch (admittedly very old)? I've opened the PDF there and Acrobat claims it to be tagged. | |
| S Jul 20, 2013 at 19:46 | history | bounty started | Andy Clifton | ||
| S Jul 20, 2013 at 19:46 | history | notice added | Andy Clifton | Current answers are outdated | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 5:26 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackTeX/status/358095496780324865 | ||
| Jul 19, 2013 at 1:30 | history | reopened | Heiko Oberdiek Andy Clifton Jake dustin Antal Spector-Zabusky | ||
| Jul 19, 2013 at 0:25 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Jul 19, 2013 at 0:13 | comment | added | Andy Clifton | So, who do I get his reopened as not a duplicate? Please see edits explaining why this is not a duplicate. | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 0:06 | history | edited | Andy Clifton | CC BY-SA 3.0 | rant about reopening |
| Jul 17, 2013 at 18:48 | history | closed | Martin Schröder Claudio Fiandrino mafp lockstep Mensch | Duplicate of How can tagged PDFs be created that support Universal Accessibility and reflowing? | |
| Jul 17, 2013 at 18:11 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 17, 2013 at 2:55 | comment | added | Jagath | Can you please have a look at these videos: [1], [2] and [3]. I guess, you will get more info regarding tagged PDFs from last two videos. | |
| Jul 16, 2013 at 19:40 | comment | added | Andy Clifton | @mbork Umm, all of our templates are in LaTeX, and if I suddenly tell the authors to use ConTeXt there will be tantrums. That said, can you add an example demonstrating this? | |
| Jul 16, 2013 at 19:38 | comment | added | Andy Clifton | @Werner - thank you, very relevant, but from 2009, and it includes this comment: "This kind of coding, directly in pdfTEX primitives, is really only useful for testing and “proof of concept” examples". I was hoping that there would be a 2013 version of this called "How to produce ADA-compliant documents from LaTeX"... | |
| Jul 16, 2013 at 19:34 | comment | added | mbork | I can't recall any details, but there was some discussion about it on the ConTeXt mailing list - try searching its archives. How much are you attached to LaTeX? ConTeXt might be a better choice especially in non-academic setting. | |
| Jul 16, 2013 at 19:34 | comment | added | Werner♦ | Relevant: Ongoing efforts to generate “tagged PDF” using pdfTeX | |
| Jul 16, 2013 at 19:30 | history | asked | Andy Clifton | CC BY-SA 3.0 |