[accessibility] An accessible PDF CC By-NC-SA Calculus book?

[Jason White]

I think OpenStax publishes in HTML as well, which would be a better 
starting point for you.

On 17/7/21 3:19 pm, Jonathan Fine wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've discovered what might be an accessible PDF for a Calculus book. 
> Please would someone who has the right tools investigate this for us. 
> (I'm on Linux and don't have Acrobat.) The details are below. And if 
> the PDF is not accessible, perhaps we could help the producers improve 
> the accessibility.
>
> Disclaimer. The PDF wasn't produced using TeX. However, the source 
> document is open source, and it's good to learn from others. I've 
> copied Bruce Lawson, who's mentioned below. He's interested in 
> accessibility. (Hello Bruce from Jonathan.)
>
> The starting point is this: The message below on the BlindMath list said:
>
> http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/blindmath_nfbnet.org/2021-July/009909.html 
> <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/blindmath_nfbnet.org/2021-July/009909.html>
> > As for education and training, Openstax is a very good resource 
> with accessible high-school as well as some university level math. All 
> topics I read were well and comprehensively explained, providing also 
> some exercises for training.
>
> I hadn't heard of Openstax before, so I took a look.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStax 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStax>
> > OpenStax (formerly OpenStax College) is a nonprofit educational 
> technology initiative based at Rice University. Since 2012, OpenStax 
> has created peer-reviewed, openly-licensed textbooks, which are 
> available in free digital formats and for a low cost in print
>
> > OpenStax's original goal was to publish openly licensed textbooks 
> for the 25 highest-enrolled undergraduate college courses, and they 
> exceeded that goal in 2016. In September 2020 they announced plans to 
> double the number of textbooks they offer. All books are available for 
> free in web view and PDF on openstax.org <http://openstax.org>.
>
> I found a textbook homepage and downloaded the PDF. I think it looks OK.
>
> https://openstax.org/details/books/calculus-volume-1 
> <https://openstax.org/details/books/calculus-volume-1>
> https://assets.openstax.org/oscms-prodcms/media/documents/Calculus_Volume_1_-_WEB_68M1Z5W.pdf 
> <https://assets.openstax.org/oscms-prodcms/media/documents/Calculus_Volume_1_-_WEB_68M1Z5W.pdf>
>
> Looking at the properties of the PDF I see
> Producer: Prince 11 (www.princexml.com <http://www.princexml.com>)
> Creator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1
> Format: PDF-1.6
>
> According to wikipedia Prince (formerly Prince XML) can create PDF/UA, 
> and I've found an article by Bruce Lawson on how to do that.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(software) 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(software)>
> > Prince can generate accessible PDFs conforming to the PDF/UA profile 
> (ISO 14289, the International Standard for accessible PDF technology) 
> that can be used by people with assistive technologies
>
> https://medium.com/@bruce_39084/making-accessible-tagged-pdfs-with-prince-ad7fd7a48711 
> <https://medium.com/@bruce_39084/making-accessible-tagged-pdfs-with-prince-ad7fd7a48711>
> https://brucelawson.co.uk/ <https://brucelawson.co.uk/>
>
> If you've got to the end of the message, I hope it is of interest and 
> helpful.
>
> with many thanks
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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