New on CTAN: axessibility
Date: July 11, 2018 7:45:18 AM CEST
Sandro Coriasco submitted the
axessibility
package.
Version number: 1.0
License type: cc-by-nc-4
Summary description: Access to formulas in PDF files by by assistive
technologies
Announcement text:
We propose the axessibility package. PDF documents containing formulae generated by LaTeX are usually not accessible by assistive technologies for visually impaired people (i.e., by screen readers and braille displays). The axessibility package manages this issue, allowing to create a PDF document where the formulae are read by these assistive technologies, since it automatically generates hidden comments in the PDF document (by means of the /ActualText attribute) in correspondence to each formula.
The package's Catalogue entry can be viewed at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/axessibility The package's files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/axessibility
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun
We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
We propose the axessibility package. PDF documents containing formulae generated by LaTeX are usually not accessible by assistive technologies for visually impaired people (i.e., by screen readers and braille displays). The axessibility package manages this issue, allowing to create a PDF document where the formulae are read by these assistive technologies, since it automatically generates hidden comments in the PDF document (by means of the /ActualText attribute) in correspondence to each formula.
The package's Catalogue entry can be viewed at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/axessibility The package's files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/axessibility
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun
We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
axessibility – Access to formulas in PDF files by assistive technologies
PDF documents containing formulas generated by LaTeX are usually not accessible by assistive technologies for visually impaired people and people with special educational needs (i.e., by screen readers and braille displays). The axessibility package manages this issue, allowing to create a PDF document where the formulas are read by these assistive technologies, since it automatically generates hidden comments in the PDF document (by means of the /ActualText attribute and/or suitable tags) in correspondence to each formula.
| Package | axessibility |
| Version | 3.0 |
| Copyright | 2018–2020 Anna Capietto, Sandro Coriasco, Tiziana Armano, Boris Doubrov, Alexander Kozlovskiy, Nadir Murru, Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi |
| Maintainer | Sandro Coriasco Nadir Murru |