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Re:Web4 Should Run on LaTeX by dredmorbius on Monday November 29, 2021 @06:21AM (#29378539)
"After all these years" being the four and change since the tagged-PDF standard ISO 32000-2, 14.8 was released, in January 2017?

https://www.pdfa.org/resource/iso-32000-pdf

The LaTeX project announced an a16y project in January of this year. A tool is now available, though success varies.

https://www.latex-project.org/publications/indexbytopic/pdf/

Of footnotes: LaTeX has the macro, it's common across multiple document types. HTML does not.

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Re:Web4 Should Run on LaTeX by ttybird on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @02:42AM (#29401647)
To respond to your question: no. Not sure why you linked me the PDF 2 specification. PDF/UA is from 2012, and the ability to tag PDF files for accessibility is a thing since 2001 (with PDF 1.4).

Various tools and packages that attempted to generate accessible pdfs from LaTeX have existed for aeons, all of they had a common characteristic: they sucked. I am convinced that by this point everyone who cares about accessibility has moved to other formats (like HTML).

"HTML does not"

<aside> is "first class".

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