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From: Lucy GRECO
Date: Fri, May 05 2023 6:54PM
Subject: Looking for fully accessible PDF examples
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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.
From: Philip Kiff
Date: Sat, May 06 2023 8:00AM
Subject: Re: Looking for fully accessible PDF examples
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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.
> > > >
From: chagnon@pubcom.com
Date: Sat, May 06 2023 10:51AM
Subject: Re: Looking for fully accessible PDF examples
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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.
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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.
> > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
>
From: Lucy GRECO
Date: Mon, May 08 2023 11:46AM
Subject: Re: Looking for fully accessible PDF examples
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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 9:51â¯AM < = EMAIL ADDRESS 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.
>
> âBevi
>
> â â â
> Bevi Chagnon | Designer, Accessibility Technician | = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> â â â
> PubCom: Technologists for Accessible Design + Publishing
> consulting ⢠training ⢠development ⢠design ⢠sec. 508 services
> Upcoming classes at www.PubCom.com/classes
> â â â
> Latest blog-newsletter â Simple Guide to Writing Alt-Text
>
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> Philip Kiff
> Sent: Saturday, May 6, 2023 10:01 AM
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> 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.
> > > > > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > > > > at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> >
> > > > >