Hi Summary: Obstacles to accessible TeX this Thursday 12 Aug, 6:30 to 7:30pm UK time. URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09 Links to 8 accessibility talks at recent TeX conference. Topics for TeX Hour, to the end of August. At the TeX Conference last weekend there were 8 talks that focussed on accessibility. I think that's a record. The subject of the TeX Hour this Thursday is "Obstacles to Accessible TeX". This includes technical, social and human problems. Sharing experience and a fair partnership between blind and sighted are crucial for avoiding and removing obstacles. One of the talks is a 30 minute conversation between Jonathan Godfrey and Jana Schroeder, both of whom are blind. I had the honor of facilitating this conversation. Even if you don't go to the TeX Hour, I think it's well worth listening to. It's available at https://youtu.be/KNLJwjKg7EM Here are the TeX Hour details: Date and time: Thursday 12 August, 6.30 to 7.30pm UK time. UK time now: https://time.is/UK. Zoom URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09 Meeting ID: 785 5125 5396 Passcode: knuth The URLs of all 8 talks are below, in the Appendix. I particularly recommend the talk on tactile mathematics by Kolesnikov, Maneki, Cantino, Beezer, and Volker Sorge https://youtu.be/laPT8mmz8ZA?t=22442 TeX Hours are always Thursday 6:30 to 7:30pm UK time. Future TeX Hours are Thursday 19 Aug: XML to TeX to PDF - when PDF is one of many rendering of XML Thursday 26 Aug: Portable TeX Documents - reducing and resolving dependencies of TeX source with best regards Jonathan Appendix: Links to the 8 accessibility talks at 2021 TeX Conference Andreas Papasalouros & Antonis Tsolomitis latex2nemeth: A direct LaTeX-to-Braille Transcribing Tool https://youtu.be/SZHIeevyo3U?t=14182 Ulrike Fischer On the road to tagged PDF: about StructElem, Marked Content, PDF/A and squeezed Bärs https://youtu.be/SZHIeevyo3U?t=16985 Frank Mittelbach Taming the beast — Advances in paragraph tagging with pdfTeX and XeTeX https://youtu.be/SZHIeevyo3U?t=19551 Jana Schroeder and Jonathan Godfrey ( host Jonathan Fine) Code and math in the dark https://youtu.be/KNLJwjKg7EM Keiran Harcombe & Boris Veytsman Creating TeXLive VPAT statement https://youtu.be/laPT8mmz8ZA?t=20010 Alexei Kolesnikov, Al Maneki, Michael Cantino, Rob Beezer, Volker Sorge Tactile mathematics: Enabling Sighted and Blind People to Share Mathematical Experience https://youtu.be/laPT8mmz8ZA?t=22442 Michael Nolan, Dr. Todd Pagano, Suhas Chikkanaravangala Vijayakumar, Rahul Jaiswal Publishing for all: Using LaTeX to help improve the accessibility of an open-access journal [This talk is split over 2 URLs.] https://youtu.be/laPT8mmz8ZA?t=25189 https://youtu.be/GAGglH-cWcE?t=0 Ross Moore & Tom Price Accessible research reports; case study, including acronyms and glossaries https://youtu.be/GAGglH-cWcE?t=5600