[accessibility] [BlindMath] Latex Table Question

[Alex Watson]

On 13/05/2024 13:04, Alex Watson wrote:
> 
> Have the tagged PDF team given any thought as to what this interface (or 
> a minimal functional subset of it) might look like, and whether it could 
> be made public in advance of the corresponding work on tagging?
> 
> For instance, a very minimal solution might be as I suggested: provide a 
> macro to explicitly tag header cells, and if it appears in a table, then 
> abandon the heuristics and just follow the author's explicit requests. 
> This would work just for HTML production (but I don't know if it would 
> be sufficient for generating a valid tagged pdf table). A more advanced 
> interface might include explicitly selecting a heuristic, etc. etc.

Of course, hitting 'send' always reveals something new. I note that 
discussions following the 2023 TUG meeting are online here: 
https://github.com/latex3/tagging-project/discussions/1

Naturally, my 'minimal' suggestion was already made and rebuffed.

So I guess I'm asking: does this represent the current state of things?

Best,

Alex