[accessibility] Testing PDF tagging with a pdf generated using pdflatex

[Jonathan Fine]

Hi Boris

You wrote
--
This is a further evidence of the fact that the problem is very hard.

While the authors of pdfx are among the best TeX programmers, the package
is, unfortunately, very fragile.  Whenever I ought to use it for
production, I ended up patching it for compatibility with the packages I
needed.
--

Please would you share your patches with us. Are they available somewhere?
They would help us learn from your valuable experience.

By the way, here are some URLs I've found for the LaTeX pdfx package.
https://ctan.org/pkg/pdfx
http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfx/pdfx.pdf
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/79947/generating-pdf-a-1b-compliant-documents-using-pdfx-and-pdflatex
http://support.river-valley.com/wiki/index.php?title=Generating_PDF/A_compliant_PDFs_from_pdftex
https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/pdfa/

At first sight, the last URL seems to be most useful. In particular, it
contains a step-by-step guide as to how the author (Peter Selinger)
produced fairly accessible PDF from his PhD thesis source.

I hope this helps.

Jonathan






On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:56 AM, Boris Veytsman <borisv at lk.net> wrote:

> SA> From: "Stitz,Tammy A" <tstitz at uakron.edu>
> SA> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 02:18:13 +0000
>
>
> SA> Thank you for your reply. I was getting an error when using pdfx
> SA> because it clashes with the class file for theses and
> SA> dissertations at my institution.
>
> This is a further evidence of the fact that the problem is very hard.
> While the authors of pdfx are among the best TeX programmers, the
> package is, unfortunately, very fragile.  Whenever I ought to use it
> for production, I ended up patching it for compatibility with the
> packages I needed.
>
>
> --
> Good luck
>
> -Boris
>
> Here I sit, broken-hearted,
> All logged in, but work unstarted.
> First net.this and net.that,
> And a hot buttered bun for net.fat.
>
> The boss comes by, and I play the game,
> Then I turn back to net.flame.
> Is there a cure (I need your views),
> For someone trapped in net.news?
>
> I need your help, I say 'tween sobs,
> 'Cause I'll soon be listed in net.jobs.
>
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