Thanks Matthias - that's an excellent pointer to what has to be done (and part of me is wondering whether in a little while one will just instruct AI to read out the text logically in any case...).
Best wishes John *🇪🇺 * Слава Україні! * 🇺🇦* <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free.www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 at 01:38, Matthias Weber <matthiaswebe...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can try > > > \enabledirectives [backend.usetags=testing] > \setuptagging [state=start] > \setupstructure [state=start] > \setupbackend [format=PDF/A-3a] > % \setupbackend [format=pdf/ua-1] > > \setupinteraction [page=yes, > menu=on, > state=start > ] > > \starttext > > First > \footnote[]{Footnote} > Second > > \stoptext > > > The PDF has the footnote tagged, but I don’t know what a screen reader > will do with the tags. > > Acrobat reads the document linearly, and one can navigate with the > keyboard to the footnote and back. > > In the document you linked to, Acrobat reads the text by including the > footnote (the index 1 in the text and 1 in the footnote are read together > as “eleven”). > I don’t know whether that can be achieved in ConTeXt, or whether it is > desirable. I'm also new to all this. > > Matthias > > > > > On Jun 30, 2025, at 6:25 AM, John Was <johno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Visually impaired readers using an audio reader to access PDFs will want > to have footnotes read out at the point of occurrence of the footnote cue, > after which reading of the main text will resume. (Or some may wish to > have the footnotes suppressed altogether, which ideally should be an > option). Is that achievable in ConTeXt? > > I have no experience of InDesign, but it seems that this happens > automatically with PDFs produced by that program: > > > https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mgpj0ae4xlr0609oqnlj5/GHIL-Bulletin-May-2025.pdf?rlkey=6twt93pi5locey4kc5te1yc84&dl=0 > > I was sent the Bulletin as an example of how German Historical Institute > volumes should be formatted in future for compliance with the latest > Accessibility legislation. > > Best wishes > > John *🇪🇺 * Слава Україні! > * 🇺🇦* > > > > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > Virus-free.www.avg.com > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) > archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context > wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) > archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context > wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ >
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