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[1/3] #DANTE2025 Friday starts with “Storytelling with Frank [Mittelbach]”. He admits that it took a while for himself to realize how bad we treated users relying on assisting technology like screen readers! He tries to give a rough overview of this impression by playing screen reader recordings of an untagged document compared to the work the tagging-project did so far. The examples can be found at latex3.github.io/tagging-proje

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Afterwards Erik Braun roughly explained the technical infrastructure and changes of last year to cleanup the historically grown server blob. A lot of stuff was improved but there still is a lot of work left and #CTAN is once again asking for volunteers.

So in case you have too much free time or always wanted to clean up, automate or document old infrastructure… You are welcome to join them!
(And I always offer cookies when uploading a package update… you can take those!)

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[1/3] Der Freitag startet mit „Märchenstunde mit Frank [Mittelbach]“. Zuerst mit den Eingeständnis, dass es die Erkenntnis gebraucht hat wahrzunehmen, was wir mit den Dokumenten der letzen Jahrzehnten Personen, die auch #ScreenReader angewiesen sind „angetan haben“.
Er gibt allen, die sich bisher nicht Barrierefreiheit beschäftigt haben einen kleinen Einblick darüber was das bedeutet.

Debian’s LaTeX packages are great. They’re easy to install and work well in the majority of cases. But they can be outdated. Some recent CTAN packages aren’t available in the #Debian packages, especially if you’ve not upgraded your system in a while. By being careful, it’s possible to replace your Debian-installed LaTeX packages with a vanilla TeX Live installation. This post describes the steps involved in migrating to a bright, shiny, up-to-date #TeXLaTeX distribution.

peateasea.de/replacing-debian-

P.T.C. · Replacing Debian LaTeX packages with vanilla TeX LiveDebian’s LaTeX packages are great. They’re easy to install and work well in the majority of cases. But they can be outdated. Some recent CTAN packages aren’t available in the Debian packages, especially if you’ve not upgraded your system in a while. By being careful, it’s possible to replace your Debian-installed LaTeX packages with a vanilla TeX Live installation. This post describes the steps involved in migrating to a bright, shiny, up-to-date LaTeX distribution.
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#DANTE2025 is starting at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt.

Mr. Lion and me are extremly curious about discussions and expecting a boost concerning tagging and accesibility of #TeXLaTeX.

We already realized yesterday, that there is too little time for all the projects we are working on… but … we are all trying our best.

I will try to sum up the talks below this.

EN in first answer.

Die #DANTE2025 startet an der Hochschule Darmstadt.

Der Löwe und ich sind startklar gespannt auf die Diskussionen. Vermutlich wieder viel zu tagging und Barrierefreiheit.

Gestern beim Vorabendtreff haben wir schon festgestellt, dass alle hier noch viel zu viel Dinge getan haben wollten… aber leider hat der Tag nur 24h … aber wir bleiben dran.

Unter diesem Toot versuche ich wieder etwas die Vorträge zusammenzufassen.

Astuce TikZ du jour : pour dessiner une figure avec une orientation « quelconque », au lieu de se fatiguer à calculer les coordonnées des points, on peut utiliser l'option "rotate" qui fait une rotation de toute la figure.

Sur mon dessin ci-dessous, les points ont pour coordonnées A(0,0); B(4,0); C(4,2) et D(0,2) puis j'ai utilisé rotate=30 pour tout tourner de 30°.