From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Henney Subject: Re: pdf screen reader accessibility? Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 12:22:58 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87mw2lcwo9.fsf@gmx.us> <87mw2lh1r6.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <87y4m5bdi3.fsf@gmx.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=90e6ba614f6eeea9cd05133a9ee9 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37596) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yfucv-0002C7-Hb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:23:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yfucu-0007yT-1r for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:23:01 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-x229.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c03::229]:34083) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yfuct-0007y7-RP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:22:59 -0400 Received: by iedfl3 with SMTP id fl3so92089817ied.1 for ; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 11:22:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87y4m5bdi3.fsf@gmx.us> 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: Rasmus Cc: emacs-org --90e6ba614f6eeea9cd05133a9ee9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Rasmus wrote: > Marcin Borkowski writes: > > > On 2015-04-06, at 13:40, Rasmus wrote: > > > >> Jude DaShiell 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 understan= d > 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 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-structur= ed-pdfs-from-latex Will --=20 Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronom=C3=ADa y Astrof=C3=ADsica, Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico, Campus Morelia --90e6ba614f6eeea9cd05133a9ee9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> wrote= :
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:

> On 2015-04-06, at 13:40, Rasmus <r= asmus@gmx.us> wrote:
>
>> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@p= anix.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.
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