The portable document format: an analysis of PDF accessibility

P Acosta-Vargas, M Gonzalez, MR Zambrano… - Advances in Human …, 2020 - Springer
Today, PDFs are frequently used as part of the preservation of historical documents in
libraries, and they are also one of the most used formats on the web when sharing …

The Accessibility Paradox: Can Research Articles Inspecting Accessibility Be Inaccessible?

AB Szentirmai, Y Inal, AB Torkildsby - International Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
Relevant literature focusing on the accessibility of electronic documents (eg, PDFs) has
been increasing in recent years. Despite its significance, paradoxically, scientific articles …

Improving PDF accessibility tools for content developers: looking towards the future

A Jembu Rajkumar, JB Jordan, J Lazar - Designing for Inclusion: Inclusive …, 2020 - Springer
While much of the discussion on digital accessibility focuses on web accessibility,
accessibility of PDF files is an ongoing but frequently overlooked challenge. The guidelines …

A strategic approach to document accessibility: integrating PDF/UA into your electronic content

A Spencer, K McCall - Computers Helping People with Special Needs …, 2014 - Springer
Many countries, provinces and states have legislation mandating the accessibility of
documents and formatted content. There are now existing and emerging standards for …

Development and evaluation of a tool for assisting content creators in making pdf files more accessible

D Pradhan, T Rajput, AJ Rajkumar, J Lazar… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Most PDF documents are inaccessible for people with disabilities, creating barriers in
education, science, commerce, e-government, and recreation. Documents in PDF format are …

PAVE: A web application to identify and correct accessibility problems in PDF documents

L Doblies, D Stolz, A Darvishy, HP Hutter - … 2014, Paris, France, July 9-11 …, 2014 - Springer
This paper describes the implementation of the PDF Accessibility Validation Engine (PAVE).
PAVE is a web based application for identifying and correcting accessibility issues in PDF …

An uninteresting tour through why our research papers aren't accessible

JP Bigham, EL Brady, C Gleason, A Guo… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Our research is delivered as Portable Document Format (PDF) documents, and very few
include basic metadata to make them accessible to people with disabilities. As a result …

[PDF][PDF] PDF accessibility of research papers: What tools are needed for assessment and remediation?

AJ Rajkumar, J Lazar, JB Jordan, A Darvishy… - HICSS, 2020 - core.ac.uk
Trillions of documents online are in PDF format, but only a small amount of these PDF
documents include the necessary markup to make them accessible for people with …

PDF/UA–A New Era for Document Accessibility: Understanding, Managing and Implementing the ISO Standard PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility): Introduction to the …

O Drümmer, M Erle - Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 13th …, 2012 - Springer
Short introduction to the Special Thematic Session about the new ISO standard for PDF
accessibility and how PDF/UA changes the game for document software developers …

PDF accessibility: Tools and challenges

A Darvishy - Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 16th …, 2018 - Springer
This paper presents a comparison of different post-processing software tools to make PDF
documents accessible. The comparison is based on different qualitative and verifiable …