SciA11y: Improving the Accessibility of Scientific Documents(medium.com)

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SciA11y: Improving the Accessibility of Scientific Documents

https://medium.com/ai2-blog/scia11y-improving-the-accessibility-of-scientific-documents-1-of-2-48e1a7025a09

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The majority of scientific papers are distributed in PDF, which pose challenges for accessibility, especially for blind and low vision (BLV) readers.

SciA11y incorporates several machine learning models to extract the content of scientific PDFs and render this content as accessible HTML, with added novel navigational features to support screen reader users.

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.00076

Blog post: https://medium.com/ai2-blog/scia11y-improving-the-accessibil...

Demo: https://scia11y.org/

Disclosure: I work for the Semantic Scholar team at the Allen Institute for AI, the nonprofit research organization working on SciA11y.