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Re: Looking for fully accessible PDF examples

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From: Philip Kiff
Date: May 6, 2023 8:00AM

One place to start is the PDF/UA Reference Suite from the PDF Association:
https://pdfa.org/resource/pdfua-reference-suite/

This is a collection of 10 sample PDFs that are supposed to demonstrate
best practices and adhere to the PDF/UA-1 standard. Originally published
in 2014 along with the Matterhorn protocol, the suite was updated in
2020 to reflect corrections and some changes in recommended tagging
practices based on the PDF Association's "Tagged PDF Best Practices
Guide: Syntax" document.

I don't think the files include examples of ALL the accessibility
features available in the PDF format. And in a couple small cases, I
think there are differences of opinion about how best to tag certain
items. The PDF/UA Suite tends to follow PDF/UA-1 standard strictly and
to the letter, whereas some remediators will allow for minor variations
in tagging as a result of focusing more on how currently popular screen
reader software or other assistive technology actually processes PDF
files instead of focusing only on that standard.

Phil.

Philip Kiff
D4K Communications

On 2023-05-05 20:54, Lucy GRECO wrote:
> A friend of mine is looking for some examples of PDFs that are fully
> accessible and in the collection of PDFs have all the accessibility
> features that Adobe provides. If anybody knows of such a collection, please
> let me know.
> > > >