Re: pdf screen reader accessibility?

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=PDF/UA As far as I can tell, support
>>>>for this from LaTeX is still very much a work 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-structured-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.  >> > > It is available on Andy
>>>>Clifton's github page: > >
>>>>https://github.com/AndyClifton/AccessibleMetaClass
>
> I don't think we should add default packages that are not on CTAN as they
> cannot easily be installed.
>

I agree - I just wanted to make sure that people on this thread who
might want it, can find it easily.

AFAICT, the original accessibility.sty is from 2007: Babett
Schalitz wrote it as part of her "Diplomarbeit". I cannot even find
the original access.tex from which docstrip produces accessibility.sty.
I hope that Andy Clifton might be able to push and get it into CTAN,
but until that time, the only thing one can do is download it from
his github repo and use it through local mechanisms.

Nick