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Re: HTML/CSS-to-PDF-engines that Produce Tagged PDFs

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From: Brandon Keith Biggs
Date: Apr 1, 2019 9:19AM

Hello,
If the HTML is properly tagged, why is there any question about the PDF?
Isn't it almost a direct conversion? I've never programmed PDF, but from
what I've seen with my screen reader, PDF tags and HTML tags are almost
identical.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;


On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 8:16 AM < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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.
>
> --Bevi Chagnon
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