LaTeX is the first PDF/UA-2 compliance accessible PDF producer

This must be a joke. LaTeX cannot even produce accessible PDF today. Believe me, I tried. I write my lecture notes in LaTeX and some of my students have disabilities. I tried to follow these guides <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tex.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;261537&#x2F;a-guide-on-how-to-produce-accessible-pdf-files" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tex.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;261537&#x2F;a-guide-on-ho...</a> (note the Feb 2024 update). No matter how technically &quot;correct&quot; the LaTeX people want it to be, even a PDF produced by MS Word was more accessible for my students.

Is texlive 2024 producing tagged PDF out of the box? That would be awesome! If not, is there somewhere some instructions&#x2F;tutorials explaining the steps to follow?

This work is ongoing. There will be a number of papers and a one-day workshop at the upcoming TeX Users Group meeting <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tug.org&#x2F;tug2024&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tug.org&#x2F;tug2024&#x2F;</a>. People interested in the technical details may find the page of the working group useful <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tug.org&#x2F;twg&#x2F;accessibility&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tug.org&#x2F;twg&#x2F;accessibility&#x2F;</a>.

&gt; Using Tagged PDF for Accessibility and Reuse in PDF 2.0<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdfa.org&#x2F;wtpdf&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdfa.org&#x2F;wtpdf&#x2F;</a><p>This sounds amazing! Some years ago I was involved with a project for a company where we tried to extract some data from some PDF files they had. But neither OCR nor my attempts at reconstructing order of text in the documents panned out in the end, and it all ended in tears :(<p>Perhaps one day in the future dealing with extracting data from PDFs will be less of a mess.

&gt; At the present time we are not distributing the modified TeX sources that generate these tagged examples<p>Why not?

If you are interested in this work, you could look into joining or just supporting the TeX Users Group, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tug.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tug.org</a>, or your local users group. A lot of folks doing good things, including the ones who are doing this.

Is this pdf standard freely accessible? How widely supported even PDF 2.0 is?

can somebody explain?<p>I already can create PDF from latex, what does this repo add to it?