Talks at TUG 2026 (from the team and others)

Frank, Ulrike and Marcel attended the TUG 2026 meeting in early August in Calgary. They presented two papers there

• Ulrike gave an update on the Tagged PDF project (video and paper), showing off how things are working and giving advice on keeping up to date with developments generally in this work. For most end users, the tagging project is quite transparent (minimal source changes), so this is an opportunity to see ‘under the hood’ a bit.
• Frank talked about updating document classes using templates (video and paper). This is more aimed at document class authors, who will need to think about taking steps to update their code to let users have that transparent experience.

But it wasn’t only the team who talked about tagged PDFs and accessibility. Timothy Erickson and Aarush Bhat talked about the realties of making content accessible for a visually impaired users (video): Aarush is blind. This gave a real sense of the day-to-day requirements for truly accessible content. Tim Prescott gave two talks, back to back, one focussed on converting a textbook to tagged PDF (video and paper) and a second on making accessible presentations using ltx-talk (video and paper). Tim has been very active in working with the team to deliver for US education, so it was excellent to hear him. Finally, John Lienhard looked at his work on the MIT thesis class (video and paper), making use of the new template methods to update the flexibility of the class as well as producing accessible results.

Overall, the conference was an excellent showcase of the work in the TeX community on building accessibility into standard workflows.

Enjoy — Joseph

See also: Original Source by the LaTeX project team