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April 2025 by Duff Johnson
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What does it take to build the organizational skills and resources necessary to succeed in ensuring PDF documents are accessible?

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April 2025 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Accessibility LWG’s 2025-Q2 release focuses on headings, with 9 new techniques and 8 new failure examples.

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March 2025 by Robin Watts (Artifex Software Inc)
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Brotli compression is coming soon to PDF 2.0, enabling smaller file sizes. Sample PDF files are available to kickstart development!

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Member News April 29, 2025

Crawford Technologies announced the availability of AccessibilityNow® Gateway Enterprise, a solution designed to meet an enterprise’s large-scale accessibility requirements enabling … Read more

Article April 29, 2025

What does it take to build the organizational skills and resources necessary to succeed in ensuring PDF documents are accessible?

Member News April 28, 2025

PDFix releases a smart system to automate complex PDF accessibility workflows. The new Pipeline framework simplifies document processing with customizable, … Read more

Member News April 28, 2025

pdfRest introduces Redact PDF, a new API tool that enables developers to permanently and reliably remove sensitive text from PDF … Read more

Member News April 24, 2025

The latest release of the Adobe PDF Library SDK from Datalogics includes a host of new features and critical updates … Read more

Member News April 24, 2025

Crawford Technologies reports on the success of its sixth annual Industry Summit held April 3-4 in Chicago. The presentations offered valuable … Read more

Member News April 24, 2025

UPDF reaches two significant milestones with a major upgrade to GPT-4.1 in UPDF AI and receiving the Geekflare Editor’s Choice … Read more

Event April 23, 2025

This live webinar introduces the Headings of the PDF Association’s Techniques for Accessible PDF, and will be followed by Q&A. … Read more

Member News April 22, 2025

FormVu’s latest update offers more reliable rendering, improved error visibility, and a better experience for developers working with PDF forms.

Member News April 17, 2025

Crawford Technologies announces the release of Version 5.8 of its Digital Transform Engine (DTE). DTE 5.8 offers key upgrades that … Read more

Article April 15, 2025

AI’s Pirated-Books Problem | Correcting US financial regulations referencing PDF | New crawl limit improves CC’s capture of PDF | … Read more

Member News April 7, 2025

Superace’s UPDF excelled in the G2 Spring 2025 Reports, earning 14 badges and top rankings, including the fourth position among … Read more

Home of the worldwide
PDF technical community


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Our mission Delivering a vendor-neutral platform for developing open specifications and standards for PDF technology.
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Our vision Driving the world’s digital document format into the 21st century and beyond.
 

Featured News


April 2025 by Duff Johnson
Duff Johnson
Visit Duff Johnson‘s profile.

What does it take to build the organizational skills and resources necessary to succeed in ensuring PDF documents are accessible?

Article

April 2025 by PDF Association staff
PDF Association logo
Visit PDF Association staff‘s profile.

The PDF Accessibility LWG’s 2025-Q2 release focuses on headings, with 9 new techniques and 8 new failure examples.

PDF Association news

March 2025 by Robin Watts (Artifex Software Inc)
Visit Robin Watts‘s profile.

Brotli compression is coming soon to PDF 2.0, enabling smaller file sizes. Sample PDF files are available to kickstart development!

Article

Our Valued Members


What's happening on pdfa.org

What's happening on pdfa.org



Member News April 29, 2025

Crawford Technologies announced the availability of AccessibilityNow® Gateway Enterprise, a solution designed to meet an enterprise’s large-scale accessibility requirements enabling … Read more

Article April 29, 2025

What does it take to build the organizational skills and resources necessary to succeed in ensuring PDF documents are accessible?

Member News April 28, 2025

PDFix releases a smart system to automate complex PDF accessibility workflows. The new Pipeline framework simplifies document processing with customizable, … Read more

Member News April 28, 2025

pdfRest introduces Redact PDF, a new API tool that enables developers to permanently and reliably remove sensitive text from PDF … Read more

Member News April 24, 2025

The latest release of the Adobe PDF Library SDK from Datalogics includes a host of new features and critical updates … Read more

Member News April 24, 2025

Crawford Technologies reports on the success of its sixth annual Industry Summit held April 3-4 in Chicago. The presentations offered valuable … Read more

Member News April 24, 2025

UPDF reaches two significant milestones with a major upgrade to GPT-4.1 in UPDF AI and receiving the Geekflare Editor’s Choice … Read more

Event April 23, 2025

This live webinar introduces the Headings of the PDF Association’s Techniques for Accessible PDF, and will be followed by Q&A. … Read more

Member News April 22, 2025

FormVu’s latest update offers more reliable rendering, improved error visibility, and a better experience for developers working with PDF forms.

Member News April 17, 2025

Crawford Technologies announces the release of Version 5.8 of its Digital Transform Engine (DTE). DTE 5.8 offers key upgrades that … Read more

Article April 15, 2025

AI’s Pirated-Books Problem | Correcting US financial regulations referencing PDF | New crawl limit improves CC’s capture of PDF | … Read more

Member News April 7, 2025

Superace’s UPDF excelled in the G2 Spring 2025 Reports, earning 14 badges and top rankings, including the fourth position among … Read more

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