[Athen] [EXT]Re: article advocating for PDFs in College & Research Libraries News

[Robert Beach]

The only way I've seen math content presented in a PDF is for an image of the math to be shown and alt text be added. This is not true accessibility for a screen reader user.


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Steve said:

I don't even understand what you mean by "advocating for PDF is presently equivalent to advocating that no STEM articles are accessible". As I have already said several times, the accessibility of a PDF is at least as good as the source document and usually better.

You have not researched enough.  Math/STEM cannot be presented accessibly in PDF. It is only visually presented, which is not accessible.


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