From LaTeX and Pandoc to Accessible Document

Most accessibility professionals associate the term "LaTeX" with a mathematical markup language, but scholars have been using the full TeX and LaTeX framework for decades to generate scholarly articles (and class notes) in disciplines ranging from electrical engineering and economics to linguistics and symbolic logic. Using a markup code, faculty and researchers can create documents with embedded math, automatically ganerated diagrams and headings.  Although the LaTeX system is robust and low-cost, the traditional workflow often generates an inaccessible, untagged PDF. 

This session will review the traditional LaTeX system and explain how utilities such as Pandoc and others can streamline the workflow to output accessible Word and HTML documents with customizable styles. We will also explore how LaTeX coders can develop more accessible graphics and tables to facilitate accessibility in output documents.  Demos of different tools will be included in the talk.