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Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory (blog.documentfoundation.org)
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[โ€“] Zagorath@quokk.au 2 points 18 hours ago (1 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.

[โ€“] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 2 points 17 hours ago (2 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.

[โ€“] Zagorath@quokk.au 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

![alt text](url)
[โ€“] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Cool, didn't know that one yet!

[โ€“] Zagorath@quokk.au 1 points 17 minutes ago

Both Lemmy and Piefed support it, though weirdly unlike the alt text field when submitting an image post, this syntax only adds alt text, so only screen readers will see itโ€”users can't view the text on hover.

[โ€“] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Zagorath@quokk.au 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

# title
## subtitle

Text

### sub-sub title

Etc.
[โ€“] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours 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!