[accessibility] Seeking Help for Producing Accessible PDF

[Frank Mittelbach]

Newest version of LaTeX 2021-06-01 should get the ligatures right without the need for the camp package

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> Am 18.06.2021 um 20:28 schrieb Boris Veytsman <borisv at lk.net>:
> 
> s> From: sanchit <sanchitjghule at gmail.com>
> s> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:12:11 +0530
> 
> 
> s> Some of the words are not read out clearly,
> s> e.g "significantly = signicantly", "rifle barrel = rie barrel"
> 
> s> I guess, the character "F" and "l" is not detected for the screen reader 
> s> to pronounce it.
> 
> 
> The package cmap should be able to prevent this problem:  it tells PDF
> that the ligatures fl, fi etc should be interpreted as combinations of
> letters fl and fi.
> 
> Can you check whether adding
> 
> \usepackage{cmap}
> 
> helps?
> 
> s> It has been observed all over the PDF. I have no idea.
> 
> s> Screen reader did not announce landmarks such as headings lists or quotes.
> s> If some words are bold italic or underlined, then screen reader would 
> s> have detect that for me.
> 
> This is something tagpdf is intended for.  It is still in the
> experimental stage; I expect more progress soon.
> 
> s> I wish I could write captions for my images, but it is overflowing.
> s> I do not have enough knowledge about it, so I'll be very grateful if you 
> s> could suggest me how to do it.
> 
> I am not sure I understand the problem here.  Could you please
> explain? 
> 
> -- 
> Good luck
> 
> -Boris
> 
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