[1/2] Ulrike Fischer showed a summary of the #TeXLaTeX News including a preview for the next release in June.

Of course she included achievements of the tagging project which included the new template based implementation of sectioning commands.

And the status of accessible math typesetting using #MathML https://www.latex-project.org/news/2026/03/05/PDFA-press/ which is a huge step towards completely accessible documents.

#Dante2026 #TaggedPDF #a11y

The PDF Association @PDFassociation announced their "all-new" Product Showcase in January. The new interface provides an improved search, and the ability to search by product types, standards, and features.

For example, you can search for only open source or no-cost solutions. Or ones that offer Tagged PDF or PDF/UA-1 or 2. Or filter the results to only list those who offer "Remediate Tagged PDF" service.

https://pdfa.org/product-showcase

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#PDF #TaggedPDF #PDFUA #Database

If you are confused about your schedule, here's a summary. The PDF schedules provided by the City of Toronto and Circular Materials are both correct. Some map areas have changed their pickup schedules: for example, Parkdale used to be Wed Day 2 and they have now switched to Wed Day 1. The PDF versions of the maps show these changes correctly. But the mobile app and website lookup function don't.

Folks affected by Day switches should have received special printed mail notices about these changes, but some didn't.

One disappointing note about the PDF calendars: while those on the city's site are visually identical to those on Circular Materials site, the ones used by Circular Materials are inaccessible and untagged. Why don't they use the same tagged versions that are on the city site? Who knows! Does Circular Materials even know about the AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act)? No they don't.

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#Accessibility #AODA #a11y #TaggedPDF #recycling #calendars #Toronto #CircularMaterials

@ctietze I need to be able to make slides from #OrgMode files. But #Beamer cannot (and will not) be made to produce #taggedPDF output (thanks, @mxp). So rather than bang my head against #TeXLaTeX, I took a step back.

Check this out:

pandoc why-yes-i-am-a-wizard.org -o why-yes-i-am-a-wizard.pptx && soffice --headless --convert-to pdf why-yes-i-am-a-wizard.pptx

https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/guide/start_parameters.html

No Haskell noodling required.

#libreoffice #accessibility

NEW POST (as promised): "Org mode, LaTeX, and tagged PDFs: producing accessible documents"

https://jamesendreshowell.com/2025-12-29-org-mode-latex-and-tagged-pdfs-producing-accessible-documents.html

@rangek

#Emacs #OrgMode #accessibility #a11y #debian #TeXLaTex #taggedPDF

[Howell breathes a long relieved sigh]

Before and after.

Canvas' infamous automatic ratings of #accessibility. In the proud bean-counting brain-dead tradition of provosts and deans, the thing they can measure is the thing we must make number-go-up.

Lots of steps to get Debian to run #texlive2025. Then a few steps to configure Org properly to export #TeXLaTeX that produces #taggedPDF output.

I promise the Fediverse I will write up all the steps and make a blog post.

tl;dr thanks to Dr. Kenny Ballou at Cal State San Marcos https://kennyballou.com/blog/2025/08/tagged-pdfs-org-export/index.html

@rangek

#OrgMode #Emacs