Hmm, when I try (as hacker.tex)
\setupexternalfigures[location=default]
\startsetups[document:start]
\setupinteraction[
title=\documentvariable{title},
author=\documentvariable{author},
]
\stopsetups
\setupbackend[export=yes,xhtml=yes]
\setupexport
[svgstyle=mathtest-style,
hyphen=yes,
width=60em]
\enabledirectives[export.css.hyphens=yes]
\enabledirectives[export.css.textwidth=100em]
\starttext
\placefigure
[force]
[figure:crc2]
{Hacker}
{\externalfigure[hacker.jpg][width=.6\textwidth,
alternativetext={
A lot of math: $\int_0^\infty e^{-x^2}\, dx=\frac12 \sqrt\pi$
}]}
\stoptext
The exported file hacker-div.html
— is missing something like <html lang="en" data-theme="light”>
— links only
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href=“styles/hacker-defaults.css" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles/hacker-images.css" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles/hacker-fonts.css" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles/hacker-styles.css" />
but should also link to
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles/hacker-templates.css" />
— has the following for the image
<div class="floatcontent"><div alt=" A lot of math: $\\\\int _0^\\\\infty
e^{-x^2}\\\\, dx=\\\\frac 12 \\\\sqrt \\\\pi $ " class="image label-hacker.jpg"
id="Exporttest-image-1" image="Exporttest-image-1"><!--empty--></div></div>
This shows the image, but the alt tag is not readable. One can test this by
removing/renaming hacker.jpg from the images directory.
It seems the alt tag only works inside <img>. So changing <div alt …> <img alt
… > works.
It might break other things.
And then there is the question whether alt texts should contain math. It’s
probably best to just use plain text in alt texts.
Thanks,
Matthias
PS: I just tried
\usemodule[math-goodriddance] \goodriddancemath
Yes, that is what I was looking for, but it looks like it is only working for
inline math?
> On Jul 26, 2025, at 5:23 PM, Hans Hagen via ntg-context <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> On 7/26/2025 4:14 PM, Matthias Weber wrote:
>> Thank you, I look forward to testing any new export features.
>> In my attempts to create accessible documents using ConTeXt sources, my
>> current approach is to create an HTML file using ConTeXt, which I then
>> manually tweak.
>> The style sheets that ConTeXt provides are wonderfully easy to adapt, even
>> for a beginner like me.
>> To make the HTML file accessible, some manual editing has to happen, and
>> maybe there is something that can be done to make it easier.
>> Below are some observations/comments/questions.
>> Thanks for all the work you do!
>> 1) Screen readers rely on header tags <H1> .. </H1>, etc, while ConText uses
>> style sheets to provide a more customizable header structure. So I have to
>> change the ConTeXt headers to
>> <H1> .. </H1>. That’s about 50-100 lines of manual HTML editing, not too bad
>
> we could have some post processing options, i don't want to spoil the generic
> approach (likely driven from the already there lua specification file)
>
> btw, what is actually missing from html is a way to avoid <a> as there is no
> field in css to tag an element as such (which to me is quite an omission
> although there seem to have been a moment when it was supported, and we don't
> want to mess with javascript)
>
>> 2) The HTML is missing one style sheet: add
>> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href=“styles/file-templates.css" />
>
> ?
>
>> 3) The label={text} parameter for images that provides tags for PDFs becomes
>> in HTML
>> <div class="image label-{text} >,
>> which has to be manually changed to the ALT-tag in HTML
>
> wasn't that fixed? we now have descriptiontext and alternativetext keys
> instead
>
>> 4) All PDF files have to become SVG. I have not been able to set this up so
>> that the export to HTML recognizes them and that the created PDF displays
>> them; it has been an either-or.
>
> should work although we have a fix for sub documents coming
>
>> 5) There are problems with links within the document (using \in etc), they
>> don’t consistently work in the HTML: The ones to sections work, the ones to
>> theorems, etc don’t. I provided a minimal example earlier.
>
> just collect these examples so that we can check them all at once
>
>> 6)I haven’t heard back from our librarian, who does accessibility checks,
>> about whether the math is deemed to be accessible. The MATHML appears fine,
>> and I can also see the spelled-out text in the HTML. I am wondering whether
>> it is possible to have an accessible text-only HTML export from Context that
>> replaces every image with its alternative text and every math element with
>> the spelled-out version ConTeXt creates, along with all navigational
>> elements.
>
> they are probaby clueless ... all this math has been constantly changing for
> decades so maybe they decided not to burn their hands on it (and i'd expect
> libraries to demand specific variant documents for the target audience
> anyway) .. maybe you should ask / look around for users
>
>> I have not been able to use the MathBlobs tracker for anything but
>> footnotes. Maybe there is a way (using modes) to replace all math with
>> spelled-out math, and all figures with their alt-texts?
>
> too long ago ... maybe mikael remembers becuase i think we played with that
> (text under formula or so) ... maybe you mean one of our secret undocumented
> features:
>
> \usemodule[math-goodriddance] \goodriddancemath
>
> (no need to enable tagging as that does it sort of)
>
> Hans
>
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