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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +layout: post |
| 3 | +title: "How to make accessible PDF" |
| 4 | +date: 2024-07-06 00:00:00 |
| 5 | +description: "Info on making accessible PDF" |
| 6 | +excerpt: "The "LaTeX Tagged PDF" project is now advanced enough that more and |
| 7 | +more people start using it. We have therefore begun with building |
| 8 | +usage documentation ..." |
| 9 | +categories: news |
| 10 | +tags: [Accessibility, tagged PDF, latex, development, PDF/UA-1, PDF/UA-2] |
| 11 | +--- |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +# How to make accessible PDF |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +The "LaTeX Tagged PDF" project is now advanced enough that more and |
| 16 | +more people start using it. We have therefore begun with building |
| 17 | +usage documentation that is not scattered across different |
| 18 | +repositories as this is the case at the moment. |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +For issues encountered with the project code we have added a dedicated |
| 21 | +[`tagging-project` |
| 22 | +repository](https://github.com/latex3/tagging-project) a while ago, |
| 23 | +where people can report problems and look up the current state of |
| 24 | +known issues. It is also hosting discussions related to the project. |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +We have now extended this to use GitHub pages providing a small [Web |
| 27 | +browser-friendly site](https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/). So |
| 28 | +far this holds |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | + - Examples of Tagged PDFs conforming to the WTPDf, PDF/UA-1, and PDF |
| 31 | + - A simple documentation what to do to produce accessible PDF |
| 32 | + (describing the current tempoary interfaces) |
| 33 | + - Tables the record the status of various packages and classes (i.e., |
| 34 | + whether or not they can be used with the ned tagging code) based on |
| 35 | + the issues that are documented |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +This documentation and the tables are all work in progress and will |
| 38 | +get updated whenever there is new information. |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +If you want to help improving this, then this is easily possible. We |
| 42 | +are looking for volunteers who try out the tagging code in various |
| 43 | +ways and report problems or package incompatibilites and help with |
| 44 | +developing tests that prove or disprove that the tagging code can be |
| 45 | +used with packages for which we don't have enough data so far. |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | + --- Frank |
| 49 | + |
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| 51 | + |
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