access_head: Convert YAML to an accessible header

In accessrmd: Improving the Accessibility of 'rmarkdown' Documents

Convert YAML to an accessible header

Description

Reads an Rmd file, converting the YAML header to a format that is screen reader friendly.

Usage

access_head(
  rmd_path = NULL,
  lan = detect_html_lang(lines),
  inplace = FALSE,
  encoding = "utf-8",
  theme = "default",
  highlight = "null"
)

Arguments

rmd_path	Path to the Rmd that requires accessible header metadata. Rmd must be output type html.
lan	Identify the language of text content. Attempts to find a lang attribute value from the rmd document. Alternatively, use a character string such as "en".
inplace	When set to FALSE (the default) writes to new file. If TRUE, writes in place.
encoding	Defaults to utf-8.
theme	Set to "default", currently the only in-built theme that does not result in accessibility errors.
highlight	Set to "null", currently the only in-built highlight that does not result in accessibility errors.

Value

Adjust the Rmd YAML provided to rmd_path, improving its accessibility for screen readers. Only works with html output.

Examples

# create a testfile
rmd <- tempfile("testing", fileext = ".rmd")
# write basic markdown content
writeLines('---
title: "testfile"
author: "Some Author"
date: "`r format(Sys.Date(), "%d %b %Y")`"
output: html_document
---

 ```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```

## R Markdown', con = rmd)

# Adjust the document header to improve screen reader accessibility
access_head(rmd, lan = "en")

accessrmd documentation built on May 3, 2022, 5:07 p.m.