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[โ€“] 22 points 7 months ago (14 children)

Mostโ€”certainly not all, but mostโ€”documents that are written in Microsoft Word, or in LibreOffice Writer, would be better off as either markdown plain text files, or as LaTeX.

CMV.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    *with accessibility tags applied.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean here. Both markdown and LaTeX are plain text. They're easily read by a screen reader. Though unless the screen reader is specially-designed for LaTeX support, it may be difficult to comprehend. That's on the screen reader though, not the document format.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    I assume they mean stuff like image descriptions that you can add in Microslop Word (don't know about LibreOffice). It's quite a neat feature that wouldn't work with markdown (might work with LaTeX), because these image descriptions are not visible to someone reading a document.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Image descriptions are a thing in markdown. Images are inserted into markdown documents with this syntax:

    ![alt text](url)
    
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  • [โ€“] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Correct, accessibility also differentiates between titles and content, to better assist readers who use a screen reader.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I replied to the other user showing how markdown image descriptions work. Titles are added with hashes.

    # title
    ## subtitle
    
    Text
    
    ### sub-sub title
    
    Etc.
    
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  • [โ€“] 3 points 7 months ago

    Screen reader should pick that up.

    It's a bit trickier in LaTeX (depending on layout), given they convert to an untagged pdf by default using pdftex. For defaults such as section/subsection etc I think some auto-tagging has been added, but my memory is not great.

    Issues crop up when you need to hack something (e.g. indenting parts of a proof using the quote environment to aid readability, creating more complex tables, or just using coloured text to indicate element relations), and here manual tagging is a must!

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