Improving the Accessibility of Scientific Documents: Current State, User Needs, and a System Solution to Enhance Scientific PDF Accessibility for Blind and Low Vision Users · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2105.00076/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTImproving the Accessibility of Scientific Documents: Current State, User Needs, and a System Solution to Enhance Scientific PDF Accessibility for Blind and Low Vision Users — mentioned by adrianadunnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27320121urn:hackerpapers:mention:2105.00076:27320121Fri, 28 May 2021 20:30:40 GMT<p>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…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2105.00076/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.DL