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From: Lucy GRECO
Date: May 8, 2023 11:46AM

thanks to both of you i will let you know if any thing comes from this


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On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 9:51 AM < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> As a member of the ISO committee for PDF and PDF/UA, I agree with Philip's
> assessment below.
> There are many other types of documents that would tag a PDF a bit
> differently to provide a better user experience. But the Matterhorn
> reference documents are a great, basic start.
>
> –Bevi
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> Philip Kiff
> Sent: Saturday, May 6, 2023 10:01 AM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Looking for fully accessible PDF examples
>
> 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.
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