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 …

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 …

In 2012, the new standard PDF/UA (ISO 14289-1) was published, specifying the
requirements for accessible PDF documents. The Matterhorn Protocol by the PDF …

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

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 …

PDFs are everywhere on the web, and with the advent of the PDF Techniques for the W3C
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Version 2.0, the general public could be led to …

Key points: Accessibility is not binary, as easy as flipping a switch, it is closer to a web of
interconnected elements, each of which can have serious implications on the accessibility of …

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 …

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 …