A flexible software architecture concept for the creation of accessible PDF documents

A Darvishy, HP Hutter, A Horvath, M Dorigo - Computers Helping People …, 2010 - Springer
This paper presents a flexible software architecture concept that allows the automatic
generation of fully accessible PDF documents originating from various authoring tools such …

Two software plugins for the creation of fully accessible PDF documents based on a flexible software architecture

A Darvishy, T Leemann, HP Hutter - … , ICCHP 2012, Linz, Austria, July 11 …, 2012 - Springer
This paper presents one of two new software plugins for MS PowerPoint and Word
documents which allow the analysis of accessibility issues and consequently the generation …

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 …

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 …

Web application for analysis, manipulation and generation of accessible PDF documents

A Darvishy, HP Hutter, O Mannhart - … , UAHCI 2011, Held as Part of HCI …, 2011 - Springer
This paper presents a software architecture for a web-based service that checks the
accessibility of PDF documents and is capable of rendering them accessible. Users will be …

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 …

Automatic paragraph detection for accessible PDF documents

A Darvishy, M Nevill, HP Hutter - … Helping People with Special Needs: 15th …, 2016 - Springer
This paper describes a new algorithm for the automatic detection and tagging of paragraphs
in PDF documents. This is an important feature of the PDF Accessibility Validation Engine …

Comparison of the effectiveness of different accessibility plugins based on important accessibility criteria

A Darvishy, HP Hutter - Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction …, 2013 - Springer
This paper compares two new freely available software plugins for MS PowerPoint and
Word documents that we have developed at the ZHAW with similar tools with respect to …

Making accessible PDF documents

H Devine, A Gonzalez, M Hardy - … of the 11th ACM symposium on …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Mainstreaming the creation of accessible PDF documents by a rule-based transformation from word to PDF

R Bianchetti, M Erle, S Hofer - … Helping People with Special Needs: 13th …, 2012 - Springer
Abstract axesPDF for Word is an add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 and Word 2010 allowing to
create high quality accessible PDF documents according to guidelines like WCAG 2.0 and …