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> On a related note: is mathML more accessible than an AI generated text of how a human would read the mathematical or chemical formula? Yes, screen readers would typically allow y…

True, my knee jerk reaction came from seeing this run in the browser... but that does not change the question. RaTeX advertises itself as a renderer for native apps, but how are th…

I suppose somebody has to ask (and most likely complain) about this: what does RaTeX do for accessibility? I gather that it produces images. I checked the demo, and there's not eve…

Indeed, LaTeXML (the software used by arXiv) converts LaTeX to a semantic XML document which is turned to HTML using primarily XSLT!

I believe dginev's Docker image https://github.com/dginev/ar5ivist is very close to what runs on arXiv and can be run locally. It uses a recent LaTeXML snapshot from September.

I posted this in another thread > Even the official Adobe's example of reflowing you posted before is quite bad: > https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/acrobat/using/reading-pdfs-reflow... >…

Even after properly tagging your PDF and using Acrobat Reader to reflow the text, you cannot achieve this level of flexibility: https://forallx.openlogicproject.org/html/ Note how …

> Compile to DVI then use dvipng or dvisvgm, which will produce scalable images. However, images are even worse than PDF in terms of accessibility, which is what the article is tal…

> Just like a lecturer won't suddenly switch to a German accent when saying words like "schadenfreude" or names like "Friedrich Nietzsche" Is there a middle ground? Whenever I chec…

I agree, and the article talks about working with LaTeX and converting directly to HTML. This is more about replacing the final PDF with HTML.

The article talks about converting LaTeX to HTML, which is feasible today, if only buggy and fragile. This is the textbook the author talks about, which is written in LaTeX (but co…

The accessibility and reflowability of HTML content, not to mention the ability to customize color schemes, fonts, line spacing, and similar are not possible with PDF, even using A…

The developers seem aware and "are working on a solution" https://consentomatic.au.dk/

> A 50-page PDF loads a lot faster and shows a lot smoother than an HTML of equal textual length. Very true! Although they are now comparable, if you rely on the browser native Mat…

The tagging work is still highly experimental. A major missing element is equation tagging: for now, you need to produce an 'associated MathML' file externally, for instance using …

Quick plug in occasion of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day: BookML is a collection of CSS, scripts, and make-based magic to convert (largely unmodified) LaTeX files to HTML w…

Cool! Would you consider adding a web font with the proper OpenType features to render the MathML content? The Igalia work in Chrome is quite decent when the font is good, but for …