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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Aug 4, 2016 7:18AM

For PDF documents the international standard is ISO 14289 or PDF/UA. As this standard is implemented and added to legislation (for example Section 508 Refresh), those of us with disabilities will have a consistent experience when accessing an accessible tagged PDF document. I think it will also help with the tools that let us add Tags to untagged documents and even the OCR within applications that we can open PDF documents in.

Here are some resources to help with implementation:

PDF in a Nutshell: http://www.pdfa.org/2013/06/pdfua-in-a-nutshell/
Structure Elements Best Practices Guide for PDF/UA (draft version) http://www.pdfa.org/2015/12/announcing-the-structure-elements-best-practice-guide-0-1/
The Matterhorn Protocol (PDF) http://www.pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/MatterhornProtocol_1-02.pdf
PDF/UA Reference Suite: http://www.pdfa.org/publication/pdfua-reference-suite/

I just tried to go to the PDF/UA technical Implementation Guide on the AIIM site but the page has been removed/moved so am contacting Duff to see what the correct address is now.

Cheers, Karen