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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hello Everyone:<br>
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I know that some of you wanted to know what happened when I tried to make a tagged PDF from a LaTeX generated PDF, so I am sending this email to the list. I tried a few packages when using pdflatex, but none seemed to make a structured, tagged PDF. The only
software that I know that can add tags to a PDF is Adobe Acrobat. If you have used any other software, please let me know.<br>
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When Acrobat generated the tags, some strange things happened. (1) Some brackets and other large symbols like summations disappeared when I had Acrobat assign tags. I was thinking it might have to do with when a font was compressed. I adjusted what I used for
commands (e.g. use bmatrix instead of \left\right). I was unable to find a pattern, but I thought it was worth mentioning.<br>
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Many tags and much of the reading order needs corrected after Acrobat creates the tags. If you have mostly text and simple equations, the screen reader JAWS reads it well. I used my thesis as a test case and it had many matrix equations, which are read awful
by JAWS. The only solution that I could find was to add alternative text to each equation, which was very time consuming. I wanted to find a simple solution that students would use when they submitted their theses and dissertations. I know this process can't
take much time or effort. I think of one of my students, who was an excellent student, that said, "Could you read all the documentation for datatool and tell me the highlights"? Uh, no.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Here is an example of how JAWS reads without alt text and a matrix equation (video)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://youtu.be/uN0RhcQw8RI">https://youtu.be/uN0RhcQw8RI</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Here is an example of how JAWS reads with alt text and a matrix equation (video)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://youtu.be/M4w_8yP88II">https://youtu.be/M4w_8yP88II</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">My tagged thesis posted on our institutional repository (PDF).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://works.bepress.com/tammy_stitz/6/">https://works.bepress.com/tammy_stitz/6/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Best Regards,<br>
Tammy Stitz<br>
Associate Professor, Bibliography<br>
Applied Sciences Librarian<br>
Email: tstitz@uakron.edu<br>
Office: 330-972-6192<br>
Science & Technology Library<br>
The University of Akron<br>
Akron, Ohio 44325-3907<br>
<a href="http://www.uakron.edu/libraries" target="_BLANK">http://www.uakron.edu/libraries</a>
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