{Authoring accessible `Tagged \PDF' documents using \LaTeX}
{Ross Moore}
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Several \ISO\ standards have emerged for what should be contained in \PDF\
documents, to support applications such as `archivability' (\PDFA) and
`accessibility' (\PDFUA). These involve the concept of `tagging', both
of content and structure, so that smart reader\slash browser-like software can
adjust the view presented to a human reader, perhaps afflicted with some
physical disability. In this talk we will look at a range of documents
which are fully conformant with these modern standards, mostly
containing at least some mathematical content, created directly in
\LaTeX. The examples are available on the author's website
(\url{http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~ross/TaggedPDF/}).

The desirability of producing documents this way will discussed, along
with aspects of how much extra work is required of the author. Also on
the above website is a `five-year plan' proposal how to modify
the production of \LaTeX-based scientific publications to adopt such
methods. This will involve cooperation between academic publishers and a
\TUG\ working group. The proposal \PDF\
(\url{http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~ross/TaggedPDF/}\\\url{PDF-standards-v2.pdf})
is itself produced to be fully accessible, complying with both
\PDFUA-1 and \hbox{\PDFA-2a} standards.
}