LaTeX templates — Accessible PDF

LaTeX template based upon The University of Manchester Presentation of Theses Policy which relates to the examination of doctoral and MPhil degrees at The University of Manchester and applies to full-time and part-time postgraduate research students of the following degrees: Doctoral degrees: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD); Doctor of Medicine (MD) Doctor of Business Administration (DBA); Professional, Engineering and Enterprise Doctorates; Master of Philosophy (MPhil). This template has been checked to be compliant with the 2025 requirements. Responsibility for ensuring compliance with the University of Manchester Presentation of Theses Policy remains with the candidate. This is a beta version that adds 'tagging' features for improved accessibility. It fundamentally works, but you may encounter some issues. More information is given in the template document.

This is a tex version of our letterhead. This was updated by Sara Nagreen in April 2026 to produce a tagged PDF for accessibility.

Accessible LaTeX template for thesis and dissertation documents at UC Irvine, based on the official formatting manual available at: https://guides.lib.uci.edu/gradmanual. This template produces an accessible, tagged PDF (as required by the Title II updates to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)). For best results, set the compiler to LuaLaTeX and the TeX Live version to 2025 or later. Additional instructions for creating accessible documents with LaTeX are included in the template itself. Queries and updates should be directed to https://github.com/ifigs/uci-thesis-latex.

This is a way to make a tagged PDF version of the Thesis template. It is marked as semi-accessible because you will need to use alt text to describe math symbols. We are hoping that the packages for expressing math symbols become more compliant in this regard, but as of today, that is how this must be dealt with. https://grad.wisc.edu/current-students/doctoral-guide/#dissertation-guide is the link for formatting requirements.

The ltx-talk class can be used to create (on-screen) presentations, outputting tagged (accessible) PDFs. Its syntax is largely similar to beamer's, though not all of beamer's functionalities have been implemented in ltx-talk. Best compiled with LuaLaTeX especially if you want to tag mathematical contents automatically. ltx-talk is currently experimental. See the CTAN package ltx-talk webpage or the Github repository for the latest developments. If you'd like to use the latest version of ltx-talk in your Overleaf project, you can join our Labs program to access a rolling version of TeX Live in your projects.

This is the Overleaf example project, but produces a tagged (accessible) PDF. Best compiled with LuaLaTeX especially if you want to tag mathematical contents automatically. LaTeX's PDF-tagging capabilities are still developing. If you'd like to use the latest version of PDF-tagging features in your Overleaf project, you can join our Labs program to access a rolling version of TeX Live in your projects.