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From: Jon Metz
Date: Sat, Mar 19 2016 6:22PM
Subject: Series of PDF/UA video tutorials
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Hi there,

I just finished some initial videos for a series I'm starting on making a PDF/UA accessible PDF. This is actually the reason why I wasn't able to put anything together for #ACCESSIBEER this year. I was burning the candle at both ends!

It seems like people can be confused about making PDFs accessible, and even more confused about what it takes to make a PDF ISO 14289 compliant, so I figured it might be helpful to provide some visual guidance on how to actually do it.

This is my first time ever making a video, so I'm really sorry about the quality of the audio in the videos. Also, I need to format the captions on them a little better too. I'll fix those issues when I get a chance! You can check out the videos on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/BeFt-Qa3mjM?list=PLmfVOnJxeSEXsEKv2i20nYMHYuFEcl4fO

If you want to follow along by using the files I used to do all this, you can feel free to download them here: http://bit.ly/mtzpdfua.

The first video covers correctly formatting a Microsoft Word document so that it looks awesome as well as ensuring it looks the same on everyone else's computer. I would say the level of experience here would be beginner.

The second video covers some core concepts surrounding tagging in PDF, including the nuances and frustrating aspects of using Adobe Acrobat Professional to do it.

The third video shows how to take the Word document and turn it into an accessible PDF. This should be helpful if you don't necessarily need to (or can't) make something PDF/UA, but still need to make it accessible. In my opinion, this should be the litmus for what PDFs should look like when they're tagged for accessibility. This is probably a video for intermediate users, but if you're tagging PDFs now, you should be good to go.

The fourth video covers the steps necessary to make a PDF ISO 14289 compliant. The content is a bit advanced, but I strived to make it as understandable as possible. As always, if you don't understand something in here, please feel free to reach out to me to clarify anything.

I didn't have a chance to finish it because of CSUN, but I will be uploading a video in a couple weeks about how to validate your PDF for PDF/UA using some free tools that are out there.

In the future, I want to make some videos on how to take a scanned OCR document and make it PDF/UA, as well as how to make tables and complex tables accessible in PDF.

I hope these tutorials will be useful for anybody that wants to take their PDFs to the next level. If you're at CSUN, feel free to reach out to let me know your comments.

Thanks!

Jon Metz

From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Sun, Mar 20 2016 3:42AM
Subject: Re: Series of PDF/UA video tutorials
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Hi Jon,

excellent content! Thanks very much for putting it together and sharing it.

One suggestion: could you put the explanation about the videos - as provided below - into the channel description? This would make it easier for interested people to figure out what to expect.

Other than that - keep ‘em coming!!!

Olaf


> On 20.03.2016, at 01:22, Jon Metz < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I just finished some initial videos for a series I'm starting on making a PDF/UA accessible PDF. This is actually the reason why I wasn't able to put anything together for #ACCESSIBEER this year. I was burning the candle at both ends!
>
> It seems like people can be confused about making PDFs accessible, and even more confused about what it takes to make a PDF ISO 14289 compliant, so I figured it might be helpful to provide some visual guidance on how to actually do it.
>
> This is my first time ever making a video, so I'm really sorry about the quality of the audio in the videos. Also, I need to format the captions on them a little better too. I'll fix those issues when I get a chance! You can check out the videos on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/BeFt-Qa3mjM?list=PLmfVOnJxeSEXsEKv2i20nYMHYuFEcl4fO
>
> If you want to follow along by using the files I used to do all this, you can feel free to download them here: http://bit.ly/mtzpdfua.
>
> The first video covers correctly formatting a Microsoft Word document so that it looks awesome as well as ensuring it looks the same on everyone else's computer. I would say the level of experience here would be beginner.
>
> The second video covers some core concepts surrounding tagging in PDF, including the nuances and frustrating aspects of using Adobe Acrobat Professional to do it.
>
> The third video shows how to take the Word document and turn it into an accessible PDF. This should be helpful if you don't necessarily need to (or can't) make something PDF/UA, but still need to make it accessible. In my opinion, this should be the litmus for what PDFs should look like when they're tagged for accessibility. This is probably a video for intermediate users, but if you're tagging PDFs now, you should be good to go.
>
> The fourth video covers the steps necessary to make a PDF ISO 14289 compliant. The content is a bit advanced, but I strived to make it as understandable as possible. As always, if you don't understand something in here, please feel free to reach out to me to clarify anything.
>
> I didn't have a chance to finish it because of CSUN, but I will be uploading a video in a couple weeks about how to validate your PDF for PDF/UA using some free tools that are out there.
>
> In the future, I want to make some videos on how to take a scanned OCR document and make it PDF/UA, as well as how to make tables and complex tables accessible in PDF.
>
> I hope these tutorials will be useful for anybody that wants to take their PDFs to the next level. If you're at CSUN, feel free to reach out to let me know your comments.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jon Metz
>
>
> > > >

From: Metzessible
Date: Sun, Mar 20 2016 7:35PM
Subject: Re: Series of PDF/UA video tutorials
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Excellent idea. I appreciate your suggestions for improving the existing
descriptions. I'll totally do that.

Thanks!
Jon

On Sunday, March 20, 2016, Olaf Drümmer < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> excellent content! Thanks very much for putting it together and sharing it.
>
> One suggestion: could you put the explanation about the videos - as
> provided below - into the channel description? This would make it easier
> for interested people to figure out what to expect.
>
> Other than that - keep ‘em coming!!!
>
> Olaf
>
>
> > On 20.03.2016, at 01:22, Jon Metz < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I just finished some initial videos for a series I'm starting on making
> a PDF/UA accessible PDF. This is actually the reason why I wasn't able to
> put anything together for #ACCESSIBEER this year. I was burning the candle
> at both ends!
> >
> > It seems like people can be confused about making PDFs accessible, and
> even more confused about what it takes to make a PDF ISO 14289 compliant,
> so I figured it might be helpful to provide some visual guidance on how to
> actually do it.
> >
> > This is my first time ever making a video, so I'm really sorry about the
> quality of the audio in the videos. Also, I need to format the captions on
> them a little better too. I'll fix those issues when I get a chance! You
> can check out the videos on Youtube here:
> https://youtu.be/BeFt-Qa3mjM?list=PLmfVOnJxeSEXsEKv2i20nYMHYuFEcl4fO
> >
> > If you want to follow along by using the files I used to do all this,
> you can feel free to download them here: http://bit.ly/mtzpdfua.
> >
> > The first video covers correctly formatting a Microsoft Word document so
> that it looks awesome as well as ensuring it looks the same on everyone
> else's computer. I would say the level of experience here would be beginner.
> >
> > The second video covers some core concepts surrounding tagging in PDF,
> including the nuances and frustrating aspects of using Adobe Acrobat
> Professional to do it.
> >
> > The third video shows how to take the Word document and turn it into an
> accessible PDF. This should be helpful if you don't necessarily need to (or
> can't) make something PDF/UA, but still need to make it accessible. In my
> opinion, this should be the litmus for what PDFs should look like when
> they're tagged for accessibility. This is probably a video for intermediate
> users, but if you're tagging PDFs now, you should be good to go.
> >
> > The fourth video covers the steps necessary to make a PDF ISO 14289
> compliant. The content is a bit advanced, but I strived to make it as
> understandable as possible. As always, if you don't understand something in
> here, please feel free to reach out to me to clarify anything.
> >
> > I didn't have a chance to finish it because of CSUN, but I will be
> uploading a video in a couple weeks about how to validate your PDF for
> PDF/UA using some free tools that are out there.
> >
> > In the future, I want to make some videos on how to take a scanned OCR
> document and make it PDF/UA, as well as how to make tables and complex
> tables accessible in PDF.
> >
> > I hope these tutorials will be useful for anybody that wants to take
> their PDFs to the next level. If you're at CSUN, feel free to reach out to
> let me know your comments.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jon Metz
> >
> >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > >

From: Kelly Lupo
Date: Mon, Mar 21 2016 1:49PM
Subject: Re: Series of PDF/UA video tutorials
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First, absolutely awesome. :)

Quick notes:

- I might suggest noting that there was nothing you needed to do for the
horizontal line (if this was the case?), either because it was unimportant
in terms of information, etc.
- I also wasn't sure whether this was a picture or one of those
line-shapes that Word has. (Does anything need to be done with them in
either case?)
- I might also suggest explaining why you did *not* choose to check
"Create PDF/A-1a:2005 compliant file." I was curious myself as to why you
did not, so I imagine other beginner "newbs" may be as well. :)
- (Is it because PDF/UA is more strict or very different?)

Secondly, I would love your permission to share the videos with a class
that I will be taking next year (Assistive Technology in Postsecondary
Education - which basically focuses on AT from the perspective of
university centers for students with disabilities).

Thank you again for making these videos. While I am only about half-way
through the 3rd video so far (will have to finish later!), I found them to
be very helpful!

Kelly

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Metzessible < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> Excellent idea. I appreciate your suggestions for improving the existing
> descriptions. I'll totally do that.
>
> Thanks!
> Jon
>
> On Sunday, March 20, 2016, Olaf Drümmer < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> > Hi Jon,
> >
> > excellent content! Thanks very much for putting it together and sharing
> it.
> >
> > One suggestion: could you put the explanation about the videos - as
> > provided below - into the channel description? This would make it easier
> > for interested people to figure out what to expect.
> >
> > Other than that - keep ‘em coming!!!
> >
> > Olaf
> >
> >
> > > On 20.03.2016, at 01:22, Jon Metz < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I just finished some initial videos for a series I'm starting on making
> > a PDF/UA accessible PDF. This is actually the reason why I wasn't able to
> > put anything together for #ACCESSIBEER this year. I was burning the
> candle
> > at both ends!
> > >
> > > It seems like people can be confused about making PDFs accessible, and
> > even more confused about what it takes to make a PDF ISO 14289 compliant,
> > so I figured it might be helpful to provide some visual guidance on how
> to
> > actually do it.
> > >
> > > This is my first time ever making a video, so I'm really sorry about
> the
> > quality of the audio in the videos. Also, I need to format the captions
> on
> > them a little better too. I'll fix those issues when I get a chance! You
> > can check out the videos on Youtube here:
> > https://youtu.be/BeFt-Qa3mjM?list=PLmfVOnJxeSEXsEKv2i20nYMHYuFEcl4fO
> > >
> > > If you want to follow along by using the files I used to do all this,
> > you can feel free to download them here: http://bit.ly/mtzpdfua.
> > >
> > > The first video covers correctly formatting a Microsoft Word document
> so
> > that it looks awesome as well as ensuring it looks the same on everyone
> > else's computer. I would say the level of experience here would be
> beginner.
> > >
> > > The second video covers some core concepts surrounding tagging in PDF,
> > including the nuances and frustrating aspects of using Adobe Acrobat
> > Professional to do it.
> > >
> > > The third video shows how to take the Word document and turn it into an
> > accessible PDF. This should be helpful if you don't necessarily need to
> (or
> > can't) make something PDF/UA, but still need to make it accessible. In my
> > opinion, this should be the litmus for what PDFs should look like when
> > they're tagged for accessibility. This is probably a video for
> intermediate
> > users, but if you're tagging PDFs now, you should be good to go.
> > >
> > > The fourth video covers the steps necessary to make a PDF ISO 14289
> > compliant. The content is a bit advanced, but I strived to make it as
> > understandable as possible. As always, if you don't understand something
> in
> > here, please feel free to reach out to me to clarify anything.
> > >
> > > I didn't have a chance to finish it because of CSUN, but I will be
> > uploading a video in a couple weeks about how to validate your PDF for
> > PDF/UA using some free tools that are out there.
> > >
> > > In the future, I want to make some videos on how to take a scanned OCR
> > document and make it PDF/UA, as well as how to make tables and complex
> > tables accessible in PDF.
> > >
> > > I hope these tutorials will be useful for anybody that wants to take
> > their PDFs to the next level. If you're at CSUN, feel free to reach out
> to
> > let me know your comments.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Jon Metz
> > >
> > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > >

From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Mon, Mar 21 2016 3:58PM
Subject: Re: Series of PDF/UA video tutorials
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Hi Kelly,

> On 21.03.2016, at 20:49, Kelly Lupo < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> - I might also suggest explaining why you did *not* choose to check
> "Create PDF/A-1a:2005 compliant file." I was curious myself as to why you
> did not, so I imagine other beginner "newbs" may be as well. :)

one main reason is that PDF/A-1 disallows the use of ‘transparency'. If transparent objects (think 'text highlighted in yellow' or ‘drop shadow effect' etc.) are present in a Microsoft Office these objects (and those that overlap with these transparent objects) will have to be replaced by one or more objets that do not use transparency but still look the same. In numerous cases this could mean that text or vector objects are rasterized - which then makes it impossible to tag these properly.

Another important reason is that PDF/A-1 limits the number of tag objects you can have to 8191. This may sound like a lot but will easily be exceeded in longer documents.

PDF/A-1 had been released in 2005 and was based on PDF 1.4. In the meantime, PDF/A-2 - which does allow transparency, does not have a limit of 8191 tag objects, and is based on PDF 1.7 per ISO 32000-1 - has been released (in 2011) and is recommended over PDF?A-1 for all digital born documents (as opposed to for example scanned documents where PDF/A-1 can still be quite OK though PDF/A-2 can be used as well for these). Unfortunately Microsoft did not find the time so far to also implement support for PDF/A-2.


For those not familiar with the PDF/A family of ISO standards - they have been invented to support long term preservation of electronic documents and are widely used in archiving.


Olaf

From: Kelly Lupo
Date: Tue, Mar 22 2016 11:33AM
Subject: Re: Series of PDF/UA video tutorials
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I see - thank you for the explanation and history!

Was there an accessibility reason to disallow transparent effects at the
time, or was it purely technical (IE: difficulty in tagging objects
appropriately), and advances have made this possible under PDF/A-2?

Kelly

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Olaf Drümmer < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
wrote:

> Hi Kelly,
>
> > On 21.03.2016, at 20:49, Kelly Lupo < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> >
> > - I might also suggest explaining why you did *not* choose to check
> > "Create PDF/A-1a:2005 compliant file." I was curious myself as to why
> you
> > did not, so I imagine other beginner "newbs" may be as well. :)
>
> one main reason is that PDF/A-1 disallows the use of ‘transparency'. If
> transparent objects (think 'text highlighted in yellow' or ‘drop shadow
> effect' etc.) are present in a Microsoft Office these objects (and those
> that overlap with these transparent objects) will have to be replaced by
> one or more objets that do not use transparency but still look the same. In
> numerous cases this could mean that text or vector objects are rasterized -
> which then makes it impossible to tag these properly.
>
> Another important reason is that PDF/A-1 limits the number of tag objects
> you can have to 8191. This may sound like a lot but will easily be exceeded
> in longer documents.
>
> PDF/A-1 had been released in 2005 and was based on PDF 1.4. In the
> meantime, PDF/A-2 - which does allow transparency, does not have a limit of
> 8191 tag objects, and is based on PDF 1.7 per ISO 32000-1 - has been
> released (in 2011) and is recommended over PDF?A-1 for all digital born
> documents (as opposed to for example scanned documents where PDF/A-1 can
> still be quite OK though PDF/A-2 can be used as well for these).
> Unfortunately Microsoft did not find the time so far to also implement
> support for PDF/A-2.
>
>
> For those not familiar with the PDF/A family of ISO standards - they have
> been invented to support long term preservation of electronic documents and
> are widely used in archiving.
>
>
> Olaf
>
> > > > >

From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Tue, Mar 22 2016 11:46AM
Subject: Re: Series of PDF/UA video tutorials
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Hi Kelly,

> On 22.03.2016, at 18:33, Kelly Lupo < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> Was there an accessibility reason to disallow transparent effects at the
> time, or was it purely technical (IE: difficulty in tagging objects
> appropriately), and advances have made this possible under PDF/A-2?

the development of PDF/A-1 happened during 2002 - 2004 (with publication in 2005). At that time, transparency effects (introduced in 2001) were still relatively new, and not all (or even the majority of) tools supported transparency well (not to mention the trend that tools and systems are only updated every 3, 4, 5 or even more years…) - thus transparency still felt a bit scary to people who have a focus on predictability / repeatability / interoperability when it comes to rendering (on screen or in the form of a printout). As a consequence it was decided to not allow transparency for the time being. Meanwhile, PDF technology has matured quite a bit across the board, and in 2011 it seemed safe to allow transparency.

The decision to disallow transparency in PDF/A-1 had nothing to do with (support for) tagging.

Olaf

From: Kelly Lupo
Date: Tue, Mar 22 2016 11:50AM
Subject: Re: Series of PDF/UA video tutorials
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Thank you again! The more I learn, the more I realize how much I still
need to learn. :)

Kelly

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Olaf Drümmer < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
wrote:

> Hi Kelly,
>
> > On 22.03.2016, at 18:33, Kelly Lupo < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> >
> > Was there an accessibility reason to disallow transparent effects at the
> > time, or was it purely technical (IE: difficulty in tagging objects
> > appropriately), and advances have made this possible under PDF/A-2?
>
> the development of PDF/A-1 happened during 2002 - 2004 (with publication
> in 2005). At that time, transparency effects (introduced in 2001) were
> still relatively new, and not all (or even the majority of) tools supported
> transparency well (not to mention the trend that tools and systems are only
> updated every 3, 4, 5 or even more years…) - thus transparency still felt
> a bit scary to people who have a focus on predictability / repeatability /
> interoperability when it comes to rendering (on screen or in the form of a
> printout). As a consequence it was decided to not allow transparency for
> the time being. Meanwhile, PDF technology has matured quite a bit across
> the board, and in 2011 it seemed safe to allow transparency.
>
> The decision to disallow transparency in PDF/A-1 had nothing to do with
> (support for) tagging.
>
> Olaf
>
> > > > >

From: Jon Metz
Date: Tue, Mar 22 2016 2:26PM
Subject: Re: Series of PDF/UA video tutorials
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Olaf, Thank you so much for providing the technical background for why PDF/A was omitted.

Kelly,the primary reason why I did not go into it was because it was out of scope for the tutorials. There's a number of things I was planning on doing for the tutorial, but realized that including all the things would have made them much longer and taken an already confusing subject and made it way worse! However, I intend to cover those in the future, such as OCR, dealing with acronyms, tables, etc. Eventually I'll get to them, but for now I hope the videos provide a decent foundation for things.

However, the next video (which still remains to be cut and finished) covers how to actually test for accessibility for these PDFs. I have a feeling this is going to be ore popular than these other videos as it will answer a lot of questions for people!

Thanks so much for all the feedback. I really appreciate it. As far as using the videos, they're all in the Creative Commons with attribution, so feel free to use them as much as you want. Also, the materials I used should technically be in the public domain because of where I found them. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions/concerns/suggestions, etc.

Thanks!
Jon






On 3/22/16, 10:50 AM, "WebAIM-Forum on behalf of Kelly Lupo" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = on behalf of = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

>Thank you again! The more I learn, the more I realize how much I still
>need to learn. :)
>
>Kelly
>
>On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Olaf Drümmer < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>wrote:
>
>> Hi Kelly,
>>
>> > On 22.03.2016, at 18:33, Kelly Lupo < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>> >
>> > Was there an accessibility reason to disallow transparent effects at the
>> > time, or was it purely technical (IE: difficulty in tagging objects
>> > appropriately), and advances have made this possible under PDF/A-2?
>>
>> the development of PDF/A-1 happened during 2002 - 2004 (with publication
>> in 2005). At that time, transparency effects (introduced in 2001) were
>> still relatively new, and not all (or even the majority of) tools supported
>> transparency well (not to mention the trend that tools and systems are only
>> updated every 3, 4, 5 or even more years…) - thus transparency still felt
>> a bit scary to people who have a focus on predictability / repeatability /
>> interoperability when it comes to rendering (on screen or in the form of a
>> printout). As a consequence it was decided to not allow transparency for
>> the time being. Meanwhile, PDF technology has matured quite a bit across
>> the board, and in 2011 it seemed safe to allow transparency.
>>
>> The decision to disallow transparency in PDF/A-1 had nothing to do with
>> (support for) tagging.
>>
>> Olaf
>>
>> >> >> >> >>
>>>>

From: Kelly Lupo
Date: Tue, Mar 22 2016 3:09PM
Subject: Re: Series of PDF/UA video tutorials
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Thank you very much for making them - and for allowing us to share!

I completely understand length & not wanting to cause confusion - I think I
tend to be a Curious Georgette. :)

Kelly

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Jon Metz < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> Olaf, Thank you so much for providing the technical background for why
> PDF/A was omitted.
>
> Kelly,the primary reason why I did not go into it was because it was out
> of scope for the tutorials. There's a number of things I was planning on
> doing for the tutorial, but realized that including all the things would
> have made them much longer and taken an already confusing subject and made
> it way worse! However, I intend to cover those in the future, such as OCR,
> dealing with acronyms, tables, etc. Eventually I'll get to them, but for
> now I hope the videos provide a decent foundation for things.
>
> However, the next video (which still remains to be cut and finished)
> covers how to actually test for accessibility for these PDFs. I have a
> feeling this is going to be ore popular than these other videos as it will
> answer a lot of questions for people!
>
> Thanks so much for all the feedback. I really appreciate it. As far as
> using the videos, they're all in the Creative Commons with attribution, so
> feel free to use them as much as you want. Also, the materials I used
> should technically be in the public domain because of where I found them.
> Feel free to reach out to me with any questions/concerns/suggestions, etc.
>
> Thanks!
> Jon
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 3/22/16, 10:50 AM, "WebAIM-Forum on behalf of Kelly Lupo" <
> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = on behalf of = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> wrote:
>
> >Thank you again! The more I learn, the more I realize how much I still
> >need to learn. :)
> >
> >Kelly
> >
> >On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Olaf Drümmer < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Kelly,
> >>
> >> > On 22.03.2016, at 18:33, Kelly Lupo < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Was there an accessibility reason to disallow transparent effects at
> the
> >> > time, or was it purely technical (IE: difficulty in tagging objects
> >> > appropriately), and advances have made this possible under PDF/A-2?
> >>
> >> the development of PDF/A-1 happened during 2002 - 2004 (with publication
> >> in 2005). At that time, transparency effects (introduced in 2001) were
> >> still relatively new, and not all (or even the majority of) tools
> supported
> >> transparency well (not to mention the trend that tools and systems are
> only
> >> updated every 3, 4, 5 or even more years…) - thus transparency still
> felt
> >> a bit scary to people who have a focus on predictability /
> repeatability /
> >> interoperability when it comes to rendering (on screen or in the form
> of a
> >> printout). As a consequence it was decided to not allow transparency
> for
> >> the time being. Meanwhile, PDF technology has matured quite a bit across
> >> the board, and in 2011 it seemed safe to allow transparency.
> >>
> >> The decision to disallow transparency in PDF/A-1 had nothing to do with
> >> (support for) tagging.
> >>
> >> Olaf
> >>
> >> > >> > >> > >> > >>
> >> >> >> >>
> > > > >