Accessibility for the Working Mathematician
Julius Ross
TL;DR
The paper addresses the lack of practical guidance for making mathematical documents accessible, framing accessibility as a writer-centered discipline that benefits a broad audience and indexing tools. It outlines core concepts, including the distinction between accessibility, accommodations, and compliance, and provides concrete guidance on alternative text, navigation, links, colors, and fonts tailored to mathematical content. It also evaluates file formats and authoring tools, highlighting HTML with MathJax/MathML and the AMS TeX ML and LaTeX ML workflows as practical paths to accessible mathematics. The work emphasizes balancing accessibility with author effort, advocating workflows that produce structurally accessible HTML/ePub from LaTeX to meet WCAG and legal expectations and to broaden reach and usability of mathematical literature.
Abstract
If you only take one thing away from this document I would like it tobe this: Creating accessible documents requires authors have a working understanding of accessibility, and write with accessibility in mind.