The research content hosted by arXiv is not fully accessible to everyone due to disabilities and other barriers. This matters because a significant proportion of people have reading and visual disabilities, it is important to our community that arXiv is as open as possible, and if science is to advance, we need wide and diverse participation. In addition, we have mandates to become accessible, and accessible content benefits everyone. In this paper, we will describe the accessibility problems with research, review current mitigations (and explain why they aren't sufficient), and share the results of our user research with scientists and accessibility experts. Finally, we will present arXiv's proposed next step towards more open science: offering HTML alongside existing PDF and TeX formats. An accessible HTML version of this paper is also available at https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessibility_research_report.html

翻译：arXiv平台托管的研究内容因残障及其他障碍未能实现完全可访问。这一问题之所以重要，源于以下原因：大量人群存在阅读与视觉障碍；对学术界而言，arXiv的最大化开放具有关键意义；科学进步需要广泛且多元的群体参与。此外，我们肩负着实现可访问性的法定责任，而可访问内容亦能惠及所有用户。本文首先解析研究论文中存在的可访问性问题，梳理现有应对措施（并阐明其不足以解决问题），继而分享针对科研人员与无障碍专家的用户研究成果。最后，我们将阐述arXiv推进更开放科学的下一步计划：在现有PDF和TeX格式之外提供HTML格式。本文的HTML无障碍版本可访问：https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessibility_research_report.html