Accessibility features in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) help facilitate access to
electronic information for people with disabilities. This workshop explores how to create …

Most PDF documents are inaccessible for people with disabilities, creating barriers in
education, science, commerce, e-government, and recreation. Documents in PDF format are …

In June 2001, the US Government began requiring information technology to be accessible
for purchase to people with disabilities. The legislation introducing this requirement, Section …

Many countries, provinces and states have legislation mandating the accessibility of
documents and formatted content. There are now existing and emerging standards for …

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 …

This paper presents the Document Processing for Accessibility Workshop that is held at
CEN/ISSS and summarizes its findings so far. It focuses on standards and initiatives that …

Human Interface. The standard human interface includes microphones, speakers, touch
screens, glidepoint touchpads, kiosks, infrared devices, and video cameras (among other …

This paper presents a flexible software architecture concept that allows the automatic
generation of fully accessible PDF documents originating from various authoring tools such …

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 …

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 …