Macquarie University

• Using Letterhead
  
  • FAQ for Maths students at Macquarie University: PDF/A-3a (238kb, compressed)
  • How to Study advice, for Maths students at Macquarie University: PDF/A-3a (305 kb, uncompressed)
  • Advertisement for TeX Users Group: PDF/A-3a (59 kb)
• Standard LaTeX document classes
  
  • article class: PDF (319 kb) compressed
  • report class: PDF (336 kb) compressed
  • book class: PDF (355 kb) compressed
• KOMA-script document classes
  
  • scrartcl class: PDF (299 kb) compressed
  • scrreprt class: PDF (442 kb) without compression^*
  • scrbook class: PDF (471 kb) without compression^*
• AMS document classes
  
  • amsart class: PDF (450kb) without compression^*
  • amsproc class: PDF (474kb) without compression^*
  • amsbook class: PDF (324kb) compressed

^* compression saves about 80-120kb in these file sizes.
Beware: the uncompressed PDFs may not be served (for security reasons?) by some browsers.

Examples of PDF/UA documents built using LaTeX

The following documents conform to both PDF/UA-1 and either PDF/A-2a or PDF/A-3a.

• Conference poster: 61st Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society   (LaTeX source)
   
• Mathematics Tutorial exercises
  • untagged inline mathematics
    This PDF is fully conforming to PDF/UA, but doesn't treat mathematical content in a properly accessible way. That is, it satisfies the 'letter' of the law, but not its intent.
  • with solutions
    This is another, but with more mathematics.
  • fully tagged inline mathematics
    This illustrates how mathematical content should be tagged.
  • questions-actualtext
    This uses both /ActualText and /Alt to provide the LaTeX source of mathematical expressions.
  • with solutions-actualtext
    This uses both /ActualText and /Alt to provide the LaTeX source of mathematical expressions.
  • The LaTeX source for all these examples, annotated with comments on the coding to produce non-standard effects.
     
• ACM journal styles
  
  • example document, using ACM-small option: PDF (~1.2Mb) without compression
  • example document, using SIGCHI-a option: PDF (~3.7Mb) without compression
  • example document, using SIG-Conf option: PDF (~3.7Mb) without compression
     
• Annals of Mathematics, example document
  
  • final typeset version PDF (~2.0Mb), editorial version PDF (~2.0Mb) with line-numbers & margin notes.

TUG 2019 resources

Follow this link for movies, PDFs and other links relevent to some talks on Accessibility and LaTeX, given at TUG 2019 in Palo Alto, August 2019.

5-year plan proposal

The document linked here outlines a proposal for updating publications in the mathematical sciences to become conformant to the PDF/A and PDF/UA standards. This will require funding and cooperation from both the major academic publishers, as well as smaller publishers such as learned societies and some university publishers.

TUG 2020 resources

Here are links to videos of the 3 talks that I gave at TUG2020 in early August., along with supplementary materials used or referred-to in those talks.

1. “CMaps, virtual fonts, ActualText for reliable text-extraction and accessibility” (YouTube)
   8t-testfonts, virtualtest-ordinary, virtualtest, slides
2. “PDF Tagging for accessibility: author considerations” (YouTube)
   Tagging with LaTeX — Part 1: author considerations, Online Advice (fully tagged)
3. with Thomas Price: “Authoring Accessible documents, including with TikZ diagrams” (YouTube)
   Tikz examples (fully tagged): SWOT diagram, raising/lowering a winch
4. Lecture slides for all 3 talks.

2020–2021 developments

CRD document development, for NOAA publications.
research/meeting report: 2018 NE Groundfish surveys (fully-tagged PDF/A, PDF/UA)
research/meeting report: 2020 Fall Management Track (fully-tagged PDF/A, PDF/UA)
research/meeting report: 2021 Fall Management Track (fully-tagged PDF/A, PDF/UA)

“Australian Mathematical Society and Statistical Society of Australia: Statement on the Inequitable Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic”, on AustMS website.

TUG 2022

• site for TUG2022 talk
• Accessible PDF used to generate the above site

2022 developments

Technical Memorandum, for NOAA publications:
TM 290: 2022 Spring Management Track (fully-tagged PDF/A, PDF/UA)
TM 290: 2022 Spring Management Track (PDF/A, PDF/UA, ARIA-compatible)

TUG 2022 presentation: abstract (click to open panel), video, slides, examples, website link

2023 developments

Technical Memoranda, for NOAA publications:
TM 305: 2022 Fall Management Track (PDF/A, PDF/UA, ARIA-compatible; HTML)
TM 308: 2023 Spring Management Track (PDF/A, PDF/UA, ARIA-compatible; HTML)

TUG 2023 presentation: program (Saturday 11:00am), abstract, video, supplement, website link

2024 developments

DEIMS 2024 presentation: post-print prepared for PDF 1.7 and PDF 2.0 accessible formats; i.e., PDF/UA-1 and PDF/A-3a, also PDF/UA-2 and PDF/A-4 and WTPDF, with derivation to HTML and validation reports.