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From: chagnon@pubcom.com
Date: Apr 1, 2019 9:13AM

First, PDFLib makes excellent PDF tools.
Second, no automated tool can make a perfectly accessible PDF. Still needs a trained human to review and test the PDF.

Any automated tool can tag content in a PDF.
The problems arise when the tags need to be assessed: are they the correct tags for the content (such as all P tags without any heading tags)? Are they in a logical reading order? Only a human can verify these items.

Artificial intelligence isn't very developed or intelligent at this stage of the industry, and every automated tool uses A I to autotag a file.

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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Detlev Fischer
Sent: Monday, April 1, 2019 10:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] HTML/CSS-to-PDF-engines that Produce Tagged PDFs

We use PDF Lib https://www.pdflib.com/ - not sure how good it is though.
Detlev

Am 31.03.2019 um 16:49 schrieb Brandon Keith Biggs:
> Hello,
> Does anyone know of an HTML/CSS-to-PDF-engine that produces a properly
> tagged PDF?
> One would think all the engines would do this, but the demo pages for:
> weasyprint <https://weasyprint.org/samples/> and prince
> <https://www.princexml.com/samples/>
> are not tagged.
> Thanks,
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;
> > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> --
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