IACR publications should be "accessible"

[kmccurley]

In this case "accessible" refers to making the paper consumable by those who are sight-impaired (there is at least one blind member of IACR). The LaTeX community is lagging on this, but progress is being made by the LaTeX project. When it becomes feasible to produce "tagged PDF", we should do so in iacrcc.cls. This means things like figures, tikz, and equations should have a "speakable" version as text. There are a few documents e.g, this that address this on the web.

This is related to an ultimate goal of producing an output format in XML or HTML that can be easily viewed on different screen sizes. It's hard to imagine at this point that PDF would accomplish this in the long run.

[kmccurley]

The LaTeX team has been working on this for a few years. It's not clear that we will need to do anything other than to be compliant with changes to the LaTeX kernel.