Accessible Equations In Pages, Keynote

Hi Simon,

This and the rest of the communities in Apple Support Communities are user-to-user communities. The people posting here are not Apple employees, and are not privy to Apple's development plans or schedules. Anyone here who does not fit that description will have signed a non disclosure agreement covering any non-public information provided to that person.

Three suggestions:

1. Contact Apple support directly, explain the issue, and request assistance.
2. Contact your university's tech department or the department to which you are submitting these documents, and ask them what other Mac users have done to solve the issue
3. Use the Provide Pages Feedback menu item in the Pages menu to request this feature be added to Pages, Keynote and Numbers, or that the feature be carried to documents exported to PDF format from these applications and/or that are created by other PDF conversion software built into the Mac. (Watch for a reply from Viking OS X, who, I think, has more detailed knowledge of LaTex and of the PDF conversion processes on Mac.)

Regards,

Barry

At present, Apple has not implemented PDF/UA support in any PDF export solution, nor direct export support for PDF/A archival, or PDF/X printing standards. One can open a PDF in Preview, export it to another PDF, and select PDF/A (2b) and Linear PDF (fast web) features.

If the current versions of MS Word can provide the equation and accessibility features required by your university, then you should use Word whose continued development is supported by a large revenue stream. As an aside, LibreOffice supports PDF export to PDF/UA, and PDF/A-3b with the current version (7.2).

The Pages equation editor is backed by blahtex, a C++ application that supports limited features of, and converts LaTeX equations, to embedded MathML objects.

Otherwise, what Barry has posted.