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HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)

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262 points el3ctron | 1 comments | 06 Dec 25 14:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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percentcer ◴[06 Dec 25 20:06 UTC] No.46176216[source]▶
Dumb question but what stops browsers from rendering TeX directly (aside from the work to implement it)? I assume it's more than just the rendering
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pwdisswordfishy ◴[06 Dec 25 20:11 UTC] No.46176253[source]▶
For starters, TeX is Turing-complete, and the tokenizer is arbitrarily reprogrammable at runtime.
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1. fph ◴[07 Dec 25 14:37 UTC] No.46181967[source]▶
As far as I know the Tex team has been working hard lately on supporting accessible "tagged pdfs". Hopefully one day Tex/Latex output will be accessible by default and conversion to HTML will not be needed.