Access to research papers has changed in the last decades: from printed to digital sources, from close to open access. Despite these changes and broader access to research results, there are still accessibility barriers. A very small number of conferences and journals state an accessibility policy for the publications in their websites. The production of accessible documents is not a common practice in conferences devoted to accessibility. The purpose of this paper is to present the case study of DSAI 2016 (Software Development and Technologies for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion) conference, wherein we were in charge of making accessible its proceedings. We discuss the methods and technical procedures we carried out to turn the original articles in MS Word and LaTEX formats into accessible PDFs and the steps necessary in authoring, conversion and validation. The papers of DSAI 2016 were published in accessible format after much effort; best tools and procedure were using MS Word plus PDF Axes plus PDF Accessibility checker. We state the need to include a new role in the organizing committee of conferences for dealing with accessible publishing.

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发布无障碍论文集：DSAI 2016案例研究

在过去的几十年中，获取研究论文的方式发生了变化：从印刷到数字资源，从封闭到开放。尽管发生了这些变化，并且获得了更多的研究结果，但是仍然存在可访问性障碍。极少数的会议和期刊规定了其网站上出版物的无障碍政策。在专门讨论可访问性的会议中，无障碍文件的生成并不是一种普遍的做法。本文的目的是介绍DSAI 2016（增强可访问性和战斗信息排除的软件开发和技术）会议的案例研究，其中我们负责提供其会议记录。我们讨论了将MS Word和LaTEX格式的原始文章转换为可访问的PDF的方法和技术程序，以及创作，转换和验证的必要步骤。经过大量努力，DSAI 2016的论文以无障碍格式出版；最好的工具和过程是使用MS Word加上PDF轴以及PDF辅助功能检查器。我们声明有必要在会议组织委员会中增加处理无障碍发布的职责。