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Re: PDF Association - New version of Tagged PDF Best Practice Guide: Styles released this week!

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From: chagnon@pubcom.com
Date: Jun 13, 2019 6:40PM

We always get feedback from A T users before making some of those decisions.

You're right, accessibility is sometimes a loose-goosey standard and there
are many interpretations of PDF/UA-1 as well as ways to meet the standards.

When in doubt, test with various A T and err on the side of the people who
use assistive technologies.

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Philip Kiff
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 7:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF Association - New version of Tagged PDF Best
Practice Guide: Styles released this week!

Thanks, Bevi, I'll try to keep those caveats in mind as I start to use it.

I guess I'm just desperate for any kind of guidance and clarity on some of
the more complex PDF tagging issues, so I'm excited to have
*anything* that resembles clear recommendations from a recognized group or
professional association. Regardless of whether it's intended more for
software developers than remediators, I'll take it!

Currently, it feels very much like the wild west out here in tagged PDF
remediation land. I find I learn about best practices as often or even more
often by examining the completed work of other professional remediators or
by reviewing code produced by my PDF remediation software as I learn about
it by reading any publicly available guidelines or best practice lists. One
of the only places I can find reliable answers to some tagging questions is
here on this WebAIM list. And even then, it's not always clear that there is
a consensus among the professionals contributing here.

Phil.

On 2019-06-13 17:03, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> Keep in mind that this particular guide from the PDF Association is
> NOT intended for content creators and remediators; it's specifically
> written for those who develop software that create accessible PDFs.
>
> In Sec. 2 of the guide, it states:
> "Although this document may be useful to technically-inclined authors,
> it is not intended as a guide for document authors seeking information
> on how to tag PDF files. It does not address WCAG 2.1 or Section 508,
> but it can be used to inform activities intended to achieve
> conformance with such requirements."
>
> As you read through it, it notes the syntax for specific PDF/UA
> elements, but not the tags or tag tree structure.
>
> So it does provide some help for "technically-included authors" and
> you may find helpful parts of it, but it does not give the details of
> how to produce accessible PDFs for content authors.
>
> Enjoy it!
>
> --Bevi
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> Philip Kiff
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 12:32 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: [WebAIM] PDF Association - New version of Tagged PDF Best
> Practice
> Guide: Styles released this week!
>
> Earlier this week, apparently, the PDF Association quietly released a
> new (and in my opinion, dramatically updated!) version of their Tagged
> PDF Best Practice Guide: Styles document:
> https://www.pdfa.org/resource/tagged-pdf-best-practice-guide-syntax/
>
> Public note to Duff Johnson: Hopefully by sharing this on the WebAIM
> list, I'm not stealing too much of your thunder about the new release.
> Sorry. But it's been up for *days*, and I just found out about it now!
>
> A quick scan tells me that this is a super useful document that will
> be a critical resource in my PDF reference material. In fact, I need
> to share this immediately with some folks I work with who will soon be
> compiling an internal set of best practices for tagging PDFs. Good news
can't wait!
>
> Phil.
>
> Philip Kiff
> D4K Communications
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