From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rasmus Subject: Re: pdf screen reader accessibility? Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 20:48:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87d23ea234.fsf@gmx.us> References: <87mw2lcwo9.fsf@gmx.us> <87mw2lh1r6.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <87y4m5bdi3.fsf@gmx.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43277) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yfv1X-0005FM-MV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:48:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yfv1Q-0007NA-1n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:48:27 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.22]:64571) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yfv1P-0007Mb-NF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:48:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: (William Henney's message of "Wed, 8 Apr 2015 12:22:58 -0600") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: whenney@gmail.com Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi, William Henney writes: >> >>> http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products.html >> >>> is a good place to start. >> >> >> >> It's a list of a bunch of software packages of which most are not (i) >> free >> >> in any meaning of the word; and (ii) supported on GNU/Linux. >> > >> > So what? IIUC, the OP wants to have something similar using Emacs and >> > (maybe) free (in a usual sense, or in FSF sense) software. Isn't it >> > a valid request? >> >> Of course it is, but OP is referring to features of some software that I >> don't have access to, so how am I supposed to make sense of it? I'm not >> going to (i) install a new OS; and (ii) buy/torrent software to understa= nd >> and test a feature in named software. >> >> If there's a standard I'm eager to hear about it. >> >> > I believe the relevant standard is PDF/UA > > http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=3DPDF/UA > > As far as I can tell, support for this from LaTeX is still very much a wo= rk > in progress, but there is an accessibility.sty package that has made a > start. Here is a recent SO discussion: > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/124291/revisiting-producing-struct= ured-pdfs-from-latex Thanks those are interesting reads. Based on the SO question it seems that the best way to go about this ATM is either adding "\pdfinterwordspaceon", meta-accessibility, and cmap packages to the preamble via #+LATEX_HEADER or org-latex-packages or use Context. Org does not have a Context backend. The (meta-)accessibility package does not seem to be on CTAN. I don't think Org can do more to get 'tagged pdfs' via ox-latex until better LaTeX solutions exist or until ox-context.el exists. When exporting a pdf via Libreoffice there's an option for tagged pdf (via File =E2=86=92 Export as PDF =E2=86=92 General). Is that a suitable soluti= on in this case? Thanks, Rasmus --=20 Send from my Emacs