AccessibleDocTool - creating accessible documents
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I’ve gotten involved in a few different activities that warrant the creation of documents that are accessible to blind and visually impaired people. In general, that means careful font and visual style selection, for better visual readability, and proper use of semantics and structure, for screen reader use. It’s also a good idea to provide different file formats - different strokes for different folks, right?
That either sounds like a lot of work, or like a task that’s a perfect candidate for templates and automation. Through the magic of Pandoc and Markdown, I built a little project that, hopefully, makes the whole process easier: Accessibledoctool.
From a Markdown source file and a plaintext front matter file, even someone with only moderate computer experience should be able to produce PDF, EPUB, DOCX and HTML output files.
Pull requests and issues are welcome, especially from the BVI community.