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A guide on how to produce accessible PDF files?

Accessibility requires a number of settings in the PDF. Some of them are rather easy to implement (e.g. that a title and the language should be set) other are more difficult. The most difficult part ...
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A guide on how to produce accessible PDF files?

It seems the answer was hiding in a footnote of this paper on making ADA compliant PDFs. See this project! UPDATE: Having spent time attempting to use this tool in conjunction with a complex custom ...
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How can tagged PDFs be created that support Universal Accessibility and reflowing?

The short answer as of 2020 is that tagged PDF is not possible with LaTeX. There are several approaches under more or less active development to resolve this: Ross is working on his package/script ...
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A guide on how to produce accessible PDF files?

This answer presents what seems to me the most efficient way to improve the accessibility of LaTeX documents. Unfortunately, it requires the use of R and Adobe Acrobat. My previous approach involved ...
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What is the best package for accessibility tagging?

The only publicitely available LaTeX-package that currently actually works is as far as I know tagpdf [Disclaimer: I'm the author]: It's documentation isn't perfectly tagged but good enough to pass ...
Ulrike Fischer's user avatar
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TeX capacity exceeded, sorry

The documentation of tagpdf says quite clearly that this is experimental and development code and not meant for production, at least not for large and complex documents. If you nevertheless want to ...
Ulrike Fischer's user avatar
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In tagged pdf touch up reading order not Shown in Acrobat DC, when the hyperlink present in the Table

The following works for me. It requires a current latex-dev in texlive 2022. You should be careful when tagging the caption: depending on the length it is in a \hbox or not and so can change the ...
Ulrike Fischer's user avatar
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How can tagged PDFs be created that support Universal Accessibility and reflowing?

I also read, that in the future, the LaTeX Core Team plans to provide functionality required for "tagged PDFs", first as an Add-on and later integrated into the kernel itself. Before this is ...
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Is there a way to add table header scope attributes using tagpdf?

With version 0.42 (currently only in the github) you can add the attributes either directly or as attribute class like this: \documentclass{scrartcl} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{tagpdf} \...
Ulrike Fischer's user avatar
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What is the best package for accessibility tagging?

You may see some older discussion of the accessibility package. accessibility was developed and published back in 2007 as a proof of concept for some of the KOMA document styles. I got hold of the ...
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How to create a table of contents of specific embedded pdfs?

Based on your comments I guess you are looking for a "List of PDFs" and not exactely a second table of contents. Adding a "list of ..." is quite easy. Here is one way to create a &...
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Tagged PDF: Access /Pages object from pdftex?

The /ParentTree has nothing directly to do with the /Pages dictionary. It is an array of references, one for each "virtual page"; these include all annotations, images and image masks, XObjects as ...
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