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| cooch17@NOSPAMverizon.net 2007-11-28, 10:20 pm |
| Greetings -
One of my less-odious tasks as an academic is to serve on several
panels as part of my 'service obligations' to the University that
employs me. One such panel is currently grappeling with how to render
web pages and materials made available (to students etc) through said
pages '508 compliant' (for non-residents of the US, a brief
digression: 508 compliance means that the material is accessible to
people with 'access issues' - e.g., visually imparied). In some cases,
508 compliance is fairly trivial (e.g., all figs will have -alt text-
associated with them), but - the problem I've raised (and raise here)
is...what do you do with PDF files? The formal answer (described
somewhat at websites like
http://www.planetpdf.com/enterprise...?ContentID=6119 - just
google '508 compliance PDF files' and you'll find a ton of links) is
to use some of the tagging capabilities resident in the PDF format
(version 5.0 or better).
OK - now for the question for *this* list: most of what I read implies
that some aspects of 508 compliance in PDF files is straightforward,
*if* you generate the PDF file using one of the Adobe or other
'commercial applications' that are out there to render PDF files. I've
not found any discussion of how you might go about this using a TeX ->
DVI -> PS -> PDF generation scheme (or any permutation of same). I'm
*guessing* there is some facility out there (a package?) but I've not
managed to stumble across it.
But, in addition to simple pointers on what *might* be available, I'm
wondering if this general issues resondates with folks on this list?
This sort of accessiblity issue is not going away (at least in the
ever-litiginous US), and I'm considering this the start of a longer
process of discovery to see what I might do (before I *have to*) to
render ~2500 pages of PDF files I serve up to students and colleagues
'508 compliant' (I haven't the foggiest what you're supposed to do
with equations...tables and embedded figures are bad enough).
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| cooch17@NOSPAMverizon.net 2007-11-29, 7:23 pm |
| Thanks very much - I'll consider both. I'd rather supsected this had
been addressed at some stage...
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:29:02 -0800 (PST), Nicola Talbot
<nlct@cmp.uea.ac.uk> wrote:
>Try Heiko Oberdiek's accsupp package. You could also try the blindmath
>mailing list http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindmath
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>Regards
>Nicola Talbot
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