From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pdf screen reader accessibility?
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:39:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mw2lh1r6.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mw2lcwo9.fsf@gmx.us>
On 2015-04-06, at 13:40, Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> wrote:
> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> 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?
> What is your point?
Maybe it's an answer to my question below?
,----
| > Do those files by default conform to screen reader accessibility standards
| > or can such files be made to conform to screen reader accessibility
| > standards? Since adobe was responsible for creating pdf files Adobe has
| > screen reader accessibility standards on its website.
|
| Could you point out these standards (direct links)?
`----
(No idea why the OP started a new thread, though.) In my browser, on
the right there are some links to general accessibility info (or so it
seems, I didn't follow them yet).
>> When a document gets written in Microsoft Word, its language is made
>> part of that document. If that document is later converted to a pdf
>> file that language information is taken in by the conversion process
>> then becomes the first component that starts to make screen reader
>> accessibility of a pdf file possible.
>
> AFAIK, the language is set as part of the metadata in pdfs in 8.3 based
> on #+LANGUAGE. Can you test if that works for you? If not, what will
> needed to be changed to make it work?
Quick test using
#+LANGUAGE: polish
or
#+LANGUAGE: pl
showed it didn't work. (I didn't check the pdf file, though, only
grepped the LaTeX source.)
> —Rasmus
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-06 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-06 8:25 pdf screen reader accessibility? Jude DaShiell
2015-04-06 11:40 ` Rasmus
2015-04-06 12:39 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-04-06 13:19 ` Rasmus
2015-04-08 18:22 ` William Henney
2015-04-08 18:48 ` Rasmus
2015-04-08 20:22 ` Nick Dokos
2015-04-08 20:27 ` Rasmus
2015-04-08 21:07 ` Helm and multiple-tags in org mode issues Leo Ufimtsev
2015-04-08 21:48 ` pdf screen reader accessibility? Nick Dokos
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-04-07 7:49 Jude DaShiell
2015-04-07 8:12 ` Rasmus
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