On 29/09/2022 00:08, Tim Cross wrote:
2. Technically, Org mode cannot be used in any organisation (specifically government funded) where ther are policies which require that documents be accessible. For example, technically, this means we cannot use org mode in Australian government organisations, which would also include Universities. I suspect other countries have similar accessibility requriements, especially in government and government funded organisations).
Can someone having experience with assistive technologies comment if output generated by ox-html prevents generation of accessible PDF by Chrome? Are serious rework is required to improve HTML export? Let's leave math expressions aside for a while.
https://blog.chromium.org/2020/07/using-chrome-to-generate-more.html Dominic Mazzoni. Using Chrome to generate more accessible PDFs Wednesday, July 29, 2020 More tools promise PDF/UA generation from HTML, e.g. https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/issues/1088 liZe commented Sep 16, 2022
Version 57 will include PDF/UA support that includes accessibility tags automatically added out of the HTML structure of the document. If anyone is interested in this feature, don’t hesitate to test the current master branch and add a comment here!
Certainly there is enough room for improvements of ox-html and there were discussions of "slim" HTML ox backend. Such work may include suggestions from people familiar with ARIA and related web technologies.
