creating accessable PDF/A files with LaTeX

my latex.org setupfile to do this automagically can be found here. (if viewing this on the web, you will probably have to change the extension to .org get view the raw source). note that to use this you must add pdfa to org-latex-default-packages-alist's hyperref item.

there is currently not a good solution for generating accessable (tagged) pdfs with LaTeX. the accessability package is pretty much the only option, and it barely works.

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[tagged, highstructure]{accessibility}

\pdfpageattr{/StructParents 0/Tabs/S}

hyperref and pdfx let you export as a PDF/A. if exporting from orgmode, it will automatically include the hyperref package for you.

\usepackage[pdfa]{hyperref}
\usepackage[a-3b]{pdfx}

using a filename.xmpdata, replacing filename with the actual filename of your tex file, you can specify additional metadata such as the copyright holder, author, title, etc

any of these macros are optional, here are a few:

\Title     {Your Title}
\Author    {Vulpinely Vulpine}
\Keywords  {cool\sep
            neat\sep
	    foxes\sep
	    uwu}
\Subject   {this is very abstract}

more macros for the xmpdata file can be found in the sample xmpdata file (borrowed from Peter Selinger's website)