Re: [Phys-l] Using LaTeX to make .pdf documents with accessible images

[ludwik kowalski <kowalskil@mail.montclair.edu>]

On Aug 22, 2008, at 6:54 PM, Alex Small wrote:

> I know this isn't a LaTeX list, but with this many physicists there  
> must be somebody who is a LaTeX expert.
>
> I'm trying to comply with accessibility requirements on my campus,  
> and the first step is to figure out how to add alt tags to an image  
> in a .pdf that I created from LaTeX.  (I'll worry about equations  
> next, right now it's one step at a time.)  I don't see an option for  
> this in the \includegraphics command.  I know that LaTeX2html can  
> create accessible html documents with alt tags on the images, but  
> what if I want to create a .pdf rather than an html document?  I did  
> a lot of Googling, and I checked Lamport's book, and I found nothing.


I learned some LaTex last year but I forgot most of it. Here a segment  
from my source code (a file with the extension tex) that worked with  
the compiler I downloaded. The file {bear.jpg} specified in the third  
line, had to be in the same folder as the source file.

\begin{figure}

\centering
\includegraphics[width=6cm]{bear.jpg}
\caption{This polar bear was photographed in Alaska}
\label{fig:fig1}

\end{figure}

Ludwik Kowalski, a retired physics teacher
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