Re: Accessibility questions that are less technical

Joseph Wright <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:54:11 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texhax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 27/01/2026 14:44, David Carlisle wrote:
>> 5) There is sometimes a tradeoff between what is useful for
>> visually-impaired users and others.  To again name a concrete example
>> from ltx-talk, I sometimes show a sequence of graphics as slides
>> inside of a frame to illustrate changes (say, developing the arc
>> length as a limit by showing line segments become shorter).  Only the
>> graphic changes, not the surrounding text.  I understand screen
>> readers to re-read the entire slide; certainly Okular does.
> 
> 
> That sounds wrong, the default behaviour is just to read the last slide
> (which is what you want for gradual reveals)
> If you have more complicated interactions with text coming and going it has
> some  possibility to control which text
> gets marked to be read and which is marked as Artifact.
> 
> That's
>> pretty tedious after five slides.  Does anyone have advice about
>> working through that?
>>
> 
> It's not supposed to happen.
What David and Ulrike said - this isn't the standard setup, can you show 
an example?

Joseph