[NTG-context] Re: images with alt text

[luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 at 16:44, Florent Michel <florent.m42@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It seems that the accessibility page has moved here:
> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Input_and_compilation/Accessibility .
> Maybe the last example is suitable?
>
> (It seems to correctly embed the alt text in the pdf; this can be checked
> by using the `--nocompression` flag and opening the resulting pdf with a
> text editor. Not sure how to have the alt text in the exported html,
> though; I'm sure others will be able to advise on that better than I could.)
>
>
This is an example
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/679a0c48a77d250007d313ee/International_AI_Safety_Report_2025_accessible_f.pdf

and this a checker
https://pac.pdf-accessibility.org/en

(the pdf doesn't seem good for accessibility)

--
luigi



> Best,
> Florent
>
>
> Le mar. 4 févr. 2025 à 14:29, Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de> a
> écrit :
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> today my publishers ask for an example of how ConTeXt deals with
>> accessibility.
>>
>> I send them a PDF with
>>
>> \setupbackend[export=yes]
>> \setupstructure[state=start,method=auto]
>>
>> What they needed was like
>> <img src="example.jpg" alt="Example text">
>>
>> What is the equivalent for this with ConTeXt?
>> Contextgarden ( https://contextgarden.net/Accessibility) is empty...
>>
>> Yours, Steffen
>>
>>
>>
>> > Am 23.09.2024 um 17:09 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context <
>> ntg-context@ntg.nl>:
>> >
>> > On 9/23/2024 8:02 AM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
>> >> On 9/22/24 21:58, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
>> >>> On 9/22/2024 2:43 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> It would be great to have synonyms added the /E information by
>> default.
>> >>>> I think this may be a requirement for text-to-speech conversions.
>> >>>
>> >>> even more crap .. let's wait till abbreviations are completely
>> forbiddeb
>> >>> (and also units and such )
>> >> From what I see, /E may be helpful (similar to /ActualText).
>> >
>> > Imo it's useless:
>> >
>> > (1) normally when a new abbreviation is intriduced one has the expanded
>> meaning after it
>> > (2) after that it is suposed to be known
>> > (3) if one jumps into a document in the middle one cannot expect it to
>> be repeated every time
>> > (4) if that *is* expoected there is no need to use abbreviations at all
>> > (5) so, why should a 'read out' document have all abbreviations with an
>> expanded meaning and a typeset text not
>> >
>> >> For me, the real problem with accessibility (and penalties for
>> >> non-accessible documents) is that it will force all documents to be
>> >> machine-readable (so we have to feed AI with all our public documents,
>> >> whether we like it or not).
>> >
>> > i assume that such a machine learning or pattern recognotion app can
>> quite well figure out that it's an abbreviation
>> >
>> >> I mean, no such as "\enabledirectives[backend.pdf.nounicode=❌]"
>> allowed.
>> >
>> > well, everything is allowed ... after all why do we typeset and
>> visualize otherwise ... it depends on the audience
>> >
>> > one can always generate multiple versions, one with two times the
>> number of pages and all expanded
>> >
>> > Hans
>> >
>> >
>> >
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