Generalmemoir | Accessibility for visually impaired Readers

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AliceWonder
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memoir | Accessibility for visually impaired Readers

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Hello,

Project I'm working on is coming along quite well, and then I realized I had not taken any accessibility for visually impaired into mind, specifically with respect to images.

So I did a little googling, added the pdfcomment package, and used pdftooltip to add a text alternative to the image on the title page.

Tested it out in Acrobat Reader. First issue I notices is that when I tell Acrobat Reader to read this page only - it skips the title page. I think this is because the title page doesn't have any numbering. If I tell it to read whole document, however, it does read the title page.

Second issue, the title page is manually laid out, I don't use any built in title page generation. I am using the titlingpage environment from memoir class.

When adobe reads it, there is no pause whatsoever between title, subtitle, author, image description, etc. - is there something I should be doing to make that happen?

Is there a guide regarding accessibility with PDFLaTeX and memoir that I should read up on?


Thanks,
Alice

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