Re: [O] pdf screen reader accessibility?

[William Henney]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Rasmus <address@hidden> wrote:

Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2015-04-06, at 13:40, Rasmus <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Jude DaShiell <address@hidden> 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 understand
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=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

Will

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