"[I suspect that the exported documents can similarly be improved to
reduce the amount of effort required from visually impaired users to read
such documents. The question is what improvements can be made on
Org side.]
Best,
Ihor"
Very glad to hear from TV Raman, the creator of EmacSpeak,
I'm not blind like TV but I was motivated to turn my a main OrgMode buffer into an audio desktop like TV's
But now back to the topic; much agree with Ihor, we should focus on "what improvements can be made on OrgMode side"
& TV's points are well made too: "pdftex and pdflatex were built in the late 90's"--very true & they were rarely useful
Suggest OrgMode make changes aimed at the "Lowest Common Denominator" of accessibility--accessibility in the visual sense AND in the machine or program processable sense or more exactly the "document convertible sense"--I mean documents should be made firstly in a form that all computers can easily navigate & present on computer screens and/or audio desktops in addition to being readily able to print out
TV's right, the usual pipeline of LaTeX->PDF can produce tagged & useful documents but can an end user easily copy and paste the document? How useful are pretty documents that run on proprietary systems? Many PDF's can make simple processes like this very hard or impossible--the documents can be very pretty but they can contain control characters & special characters & even malicious code
Suggest OrgMode outputs focus on creating "Lowest Common Denominator" documents as output:
TeXinfo docs should be used as the LCD doctype--suggest you focus on creating 1 document in Texinfo that you use to create all other sorts of documents, when possible:
Pipeline should be more like OrgMode->Texinfo->TROFF||DTD/XML/HTML/XHTML->LaTeX/TeX->DVI||SVG->PS->PDF
** "Texinfo uses a single source file to produce output in a number of formats, both online and printed (dvi, html, info, pdf, xml, etc.). This means that instead of writing different documents for online information and another for a printed manual, you need write only one document. And when the work is revised, you need revise only that one document. The Texinfo system is integrated well with GNU Emacs.
*** Texinfo docs can also be viewed & used by ALL end-users without any issues--regardless of the power of their computer or monitor or even if they're blind like TV Raman--he uses an audio desktop or EmacSpeak--and the same docs can be printed on any printer & remain navigable with "rn" & other simple news-reading software--or the "info" program
** Related/useful may be: "latex2nemeth"--a LATEX to Braille/Nemeth, approach "Simple pictures in PSTricks are also supported in order to produce tactile graphics":
https://ctan.org/pkg/latex2nemeth