Re: Org mode export accessibility

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

Let me take a freedom to add T.V Raman to the discussion. This thread
might be of interest for him and he probably knows a lot more about
accessibility options.

This thread starts at
https://list.orgmode.org/87v8sn3obd.fsf@gmail.com/T/#u

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> Tim Cross writes:
>
>> As I understand it (which isn't brilliant), the core problem is more to
>> do with how the LaTeX/TeX engine processes the input to generate the
>> postscript and pdf output. Modern PDFs have a wealth of internal tagging
>> which simply sin't supported via the tex -> pdf pathway. The matter is
>> made slightly worse by a lack of built-in support within latex/tex for
>> accessibility 'tags' (similar to the aria tags for web content). 
>
> There is a relatively recent experimental package for LaTeX that may be
> of interest to you:
>
> CTAN: https://www.ctan.org/pkg/tagpdf
>
> GitHub: https://github.com/u-fischer/tagpdf
>
> The package is maintained by Ulrike Fischer, who is very active in the
> TeX community. However, the package description says:
>
>> The package offers tools to experiment with tagging and accessibility
>> using pdfLaTeX and LuaTeX. It isn't meant for production but allows
>> the user to try out how difficult it is to tag some structures; to try
>> out how much tagging is really needed; to test what else is needed so
>> that a pdf works e.g. with a screen reader. Its goal is to get a
>> feeling for what has to be done, which kernel changes are needed, how
>> packages should be adapted.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juan Manuel