The majority of scientific papers are distributed in PDF, which pose challenges for accessibility, especially for blind and low vision (BLV) readers. SciA11y i

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 https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.00076 Blog post: https://medium.com/ai2-blog/scia11y-improving-the-accessibility-of-scientific-documents-1-of-2-48e1a7025a09 https://medium.com/ai2-blog/scia11y-improving-the-accessibil... Demo: https://scia11y.org/ https://scia11y.org/ Disclosure: I work for the Semantic Scholar team at the Allen Institute for AI, the nonprofit research organization working on SciA11y.