Hi

Tomorrow's TeX Hour is "arXiv access and the TeX Macro Store". It has two related topics.

First up is Shamsi Brinn. She will give a brief presentation on arXiv’s goal, and user research collected so far, around making the scientific research papers they host (90% of which come in as LaTeX) accessible to all regardless of disability. arXiv is the world’s first and largest preprint server, making STEM research available to everyone without paywalls. Shamsi is the UX Manager at arXiv and is leading the user research that will guide their accessibility efforts.

Second up is Jonathan Fine. The LaTeX submissions to the arXiv depend on author and publisher (the arXiv) having sufficiently identical LaTeX installations. It would of course be most helpful if authors and the arXiv had sufficiently identical LaTeX to accessible output (such as XML/HTML) installations. This of course relates to modernising CTAN and TeXLive infrastructure. There's no need for curation to change.

Jonathan will give us a sneak preview of recent work in this area. The technical details are at:
https://texhour.github.io/2022/11/10/arxiv-access-and-tex-macro-store/

There's also a Git repository, which on Github is opaque (as its use of Git is unusual):
https://github.com/jfine2358/tex-macro-store.

Date: Thursday 10 November, 6:30 to 7:30pm (UK time).
Details: https://texhour.github.io/2022/11/10/arxiv-access-and-tex-macro-store/
Meeting URL: https://texhour.github.io/about/

wishing you happy TeXing

Jonathan