[OS X TeX] Accessible pdfs

[Joseph Wright]

On 09/01/2025 11:25, David Craig wrote:
> Given recent updates to Department of Education regulations for higher education concerning the accessibility of course materials even when there aren’t students with acknowledged disabilities enrolled, I’m wondering about what people are doing to improve accessibility of LaTEX documents.  Canvas, for example, is complaining that my problem set pdfs have poor accessibility scores.
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> I’m a little bit at sea here. What are people doing?
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> Thanks,
> David Craig

The LaTeX Project team have an ongoing project to add tagging support to
the kernel and to support work in doing the same for packages. Full
details are available at https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/.

At present, the code is still in development, but can be used for a wide
range of sources: for example, I have tagging enabled on lecture notes,
etc. As the support is being developed, some changes may be needed over
time - but the idea is to avoid needed to change the document body
sources for 'well behaved' LaTeX files. So changes will be in the
preamble, as support becomes more established.

The project site shows a number of examples of tagging, which is enabled
by adding a short line at the top of the main source. There is also a
simple 'starter' guide at
https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/documentation/prototype-usage-instructions.

Regards,

Joseph