Scaling Accessible Mathematics on arXiv: HTML Conversion and MathML 4
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Title:Scaling Accessible Mathematics on arXiv: HTML Conversion and MathML 4
Abstract:We report on the ongoing development of arXiv's HTML Papers offering, available on every new TeX/LaTeX submission since its initial release in 2023.
The main highlights from 2025 and early 2026 are:
(i) community-driven improvements to HTML fidelity and service health, with roughly half of 6,000 user reports resolved;
(ii) corpus-scale conversion work aimed at 90% error-free HTML (currently 75%);
(iii) initial MathML 4 Intent annotations for accessible speech output;
(iv) an in-progress Rust port of LaTeXML, reducing compute costs and enabling faster previews on submission.
The arXiv HTML Papers project remains experimental, but is gradually maturing as we better understand the needs of arXiv's readers and the technical opportunities presented by new standards and by advances in programming languages and AI.
| Comments: | 6 pages, ICMS 2026 |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL); Digital Libraries (cs.DL) |
| MSC classes: | 68U15 (Primary) 68V25, 68U35 (Secondary) |
| ACM classes: | I.7.2; H.3.7 |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.16562 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2605.16562v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.16562
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