The Swiss non-profit foundation “Access for all” has published the PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC 2) the world’s first tool for verifying PDF documents conform with PDF/UA and are accessible to people with disabilities. The PDF Association contributed significantly to the development of PAC 2 in several ways. With these and other initiatives, the PDF Association underlines its commitment to universal accessibility in PDF, the worlds preferred format for electronic documents.
Hauptsächlich an Software-Entwickler gerichtet, fördert das Matterhorn-Protokoll die Umsetzung von PDF/UA, indem es einen Prüfkatalog zur Feststellung der Konformität mit dem PDF/UA-Standard bereit stellt.
PDF/UA in a Nutshell will show you just what PDF/UA is. This brochure provides a clear summary of the key facts, the standards requirements, the latest developments and the current legal situation regarding PDF accessibility, all in one place. In addition, it suggests potential applications for the standard and lists the tools that can be used to create and validate PDF/UA-compliant documents.
At 20 years of age PDF has remained very cool with customers and end users. Largely immune to the buzz and hype of Internet technologies PDF still dominates the idea of an electronic document worldwide.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 Melbourne, Australia. NetCentric Technologies, the world’s leading PDF accessibility vendor and maker of CommonLook suite of tools and services, will be joined by NV Access and Vision Australia in an unique educational event: “Introducing PDF/UA, the new ISO Standard for Accessible PDF Electronic Document Technology.” This event is the first stop … Read more
To promote awareness of PDF/UA, the forthcoming ISO Standard for accessible PDF, the PDF Association has partnered with the non-profit-organisation Access for All to solicit its members and others to join in helping the Australian non-profit NV Access enhance their popular open source NVDA screen reader to become the first assistive technology to conform to an ISO standard for accessibility.
The December 2011 ANPRM asserts it is straightforward to apply the WCAG 2.0 Success Criteria and Conformance Requirements to all electronic content. NetCentric’s Duff Johnson, chair of the US Committee for PDF/UA, contests this claim, provides examples to show PDF/UA’s importance when considering PDF accessibility and argues for specific regulatory language that makes it clear to developers and evaluators alike that PDF accessibility must be assessed in specific technical terms.
The twice-annual PDF Standards Week for the winter of 2011-2012 was hosted by Microsoft in their Bravern facility in Bellevue, Washington during the first week of December, 2011. Present to conduct the meetings were delegates from Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South Africa, the UK and the US. This article summarizes developments in Bellevue.
The PDF/A Competence Center is now part of a larger organization dedicated to promoting International Standards for PDF. As the PDF Association, numerous world-leading companies and experts in PDF technology will exchange information and experiences about all PDF standards, including PDF/A, PDF/VT, PDF/UA and more.
Das PDF/A Competence Center ist ab sofort ein Teil der PDF Association. Ziel der PDF Association ist, PDF-Anwendungen für digitale Dokumente zu fördern, die auf offenen Standards basieren. Ihm gehören zahlreiche weltweit führende Unternehmen und Experten an, die ihre Informationen und Erfahrungen rund um PDF-Standards, inklusive PDF/A, PDF/VT, PDF/UA austauschen.