Title: Creating a VPAT statement for TeX Live
Summary: first steps toward a formal statement of accessibility for TeX Live.
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Authors: Boris Veytsman, Keiran Harcombe
Publication: TUGboat volume 42, number 2 (2021), pages 164-165
DOI (this page):
10.47397/tb/42-2/tb131veytsman-vpat
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Category: Accessibility
Difficulty: Intermediate
Abstract: Governments around the world are enforcing accessibility standards. Vendors of software used by government agencies are required to file formal statements of accessibility for their products. This presents a special challenge for open source products, if they are not sponsored by a corporation.
In this paper we discuss our experience in creation of such a formal statement for TeX Live. While command-line tools are usually more accessible than GUI interfaces, the work turned out to be more difficult than we thought in the beginning.