Mathematics online:
PDFs and issues regarding accessibility

Opening remarks - Peter Krautzberger (krautzource)

AMS CoE Panel, JMM 2024

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Slides at pkra.github.io/jmm2024-CoE-panel/

What I'm interested in

• Helping and supporting people wanting to create accessible web content
• Educating on the benefits of accessible content creation
• Exploring content patterns along the web's grain
• Improving web standards and implementations to improve the web as a whole

What I do

• Independent developer and consultant primarily for STEM content conversion
  e.g., AMS MathViewer
• Invited Expert at W3C, co-editor of the ARIA Specification
• Tinkering with writing for the web and with the web

Conversation starters

• The web is the future (of mathematical writing).
• Creating accessible web content is easier than you think.
• Creating accessible web content is harder than you think.
• users over authors over theoretical purity (stolen from HTML Design Principles)

Demos etc.

• An ARIA tree pattern for complex content
• Video recordings of AMS MathViewer with various screenreaders
• An experimental pattern for/of "granularity walkers"
• Video recording using the AMS's texml & texml-to-html to convert some "random" LaTeX to HTML (and the result)