Relevant literature focusing on the accessibility of electronic documents (eg, PDFs) has
been increasing in recent years. Despite its significance, paradoxically, scientific articles …

Digital materials have become a popular medium for information access, and attracted a
diverse group of users, such as college students, who benefit from the low cost of, and …

Today, PDFs are frequently used as part of the preservation of historical documents in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 …

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 …

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 …

Digital accessibility has been supported through several global initiatives, starting with the
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 Recommendation issued in 1999 and …

This paper describes the design and development of a web accessibility knowledge
management tool, known as the Accessibility Evaluation Assistant (AEA) designed to assist …

This paper illustrates how the level of accessibility of e-textbooks can be evaluated using a
process developed by Human Factors researchers. We report the results from accessibility …

Despite the existence of web accessibility guidelines-eg Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines-to help developers and designers to create more accessible websites, many …

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 …