Changes to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act have left some UC Berkeley faculty feeling unsupported as they navigate course accessibility, with many concerned about needing to overhaul all online materials. “The challenging thing for some of the tech classes is that the tools we use (such as) LaTeX and … tools to build websites haven’t built good practices into generating compatible PDF files,” said Michael Ball, a lecturer in the department of electrical engineering and computer sciences. LaTeX is a typesetting platform known for its convenient formatting of mathematical formulas and other symbols in PDFs. In its base form, LaTeX isn’t screen reader-accessible, but PDF tagging is offered as an additional package. Screen readers use tags to read PDFs and other online structures in the correct order. Read more through the link in bio. ✍️: Emily Shu 📸: Litong Deng . . . #ucberkeley #dailycal #berkeley #professors #ADA #deadline