Benjamin Mako Hill
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Slides-only builds validate as PDF/UA-2, which is what upload targets check for, but only frame titles and links are actually tagged. Say so rather than leaving the veraPDF pass to imply more than it means. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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=== Mako's Beamer Templates ====
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Copyright (c) 2013-2026 Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc> / <makohill@uw.edu>
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This repository contains a Beamer presentation template I use for my
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own presentations. Others in the CDSC lab also use it for lab
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presentations. It is released under the GNU GPL version 3 or later.
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The latest version can be found on GitLab at:
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https://gitlab.com/makoshark/beamer-mako
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You can clone the repository with:
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git clone https://gitlab.com/makoshark/beamer-mako.git
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Bug reports, comments, questions, and patches can be directed to:
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Benjamin Mako Hill <makohill@uw.edu> [work]
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Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc> [personal]
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Patches can be submitted as merge requests via GitLab, or by cloning
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the repository and sending patches by email:
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git format-patch origin/master
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git send-email *.patch
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=== Dependencies ===============
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On Debian or Ubuntu, install the following packages:
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* latexmk
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* texlive-luatex
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* texlive-latex-recommended
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* texlive-latex-extra
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apt install latexmk texlive-luatex texlive-latex-recommended \
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texlive-latex-extra
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On other systems, installing a full TeX Live distribution should provide
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everything needed.
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The template uses the Metropolis Beamer theme, bundled in the template/
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directory along with the OpenSans and RobotoMono fonts it requires.
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=== Accessibility ==============
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Slides are built as tagged PDFs that validate against PDF/UA-2
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(ISO 14289-2), which is what upload targets like Canvas check for. Check
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a file with veraPDF (https://verapdf.org/):
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verapdf -f ua2 my-talk.pdf
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The pieces that do this work are:
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* \DocumentMetadata declares PDF/UA-2, PDF 2.0, and the document
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language. The language tag tells a screen reader how to pronounce
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the text.
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* tagpdf with activate-all turns tagging on.
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* The frametitle template is patched to emit H1 tags, since Beamer
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does not treat frame titles as headings on its own.
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* unicode-math replaces the Computer Modern math fonts, which carry no
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Unicode mappings and leave formulas unreadable to assistive software.
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* \hypersetup{pdfdisplaydoctitle=true} makes viewers announce the
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document title instead of the filename.
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* The tikz overlays behind \credit, \marktopleft, and \markbottomright
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are marked as artifacts so they stay out of the reading order.
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Use a slides-only build (make slides) for anything shared. Builds that
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include speaker notes do not validate, because Beamer repeats the frame
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title and section headings on the notes half of each page.
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Validating is not the same as being accessible, and this template does
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the first better than the second. Frame titles and links are tagged;
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body text, lists, and figures are not, so a screen reader gets the
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outline of a talk rather than its contents. Closing that gap needs
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automatic tagging from the LaTeX kernel (\DocumentMetadata{tagging=on}),
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which requires TeX Live 2025 or later and is waiting on Overleaf to
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support it, and Beamer support in the LaTeX Tagging Project, which does
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not exist yet. The alt={...} arguments in the template are written for
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that day; they are dropped by the current toolchain.
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=== Scripts ====================
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new_beamer_presentation
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Creates a new presentation directory from the template. Takes a
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destination directory as its argument:
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new_beamer_presentation <directory>
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Example:
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new_beamer_presentation my-talk
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This creates my-talk/ populated with the template files, with the main
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source file renamed to my-talk.tex. Fonts are symlinked from the source
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repository rather than copied, so the repository must remain in place.
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Symlink the script into your PATH with:
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ln -s ~/tex/beamer-mako/new_beamer_presentation ~/bin/
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