BuildVu: Accessibility Enhancements, Smarter Styling, and Improved Text Accuracy

The latest BuildVu release delivers targeted updates that enhance accessibility, improve UI consistency, and fix several edge-case issues in PDF to HTML conversion. These improvements ensure more accurate output, better theming, and a smoother viewing experience across devices.

Announcements

BuildVu’s embedded viewer (IDRViewer) now includes multiple accessibility improvements, including better screen reader support.

Key Enhancements

• Updated CSS now uses variables for colors, simplifying theme customization.
• Sidebar now supports dark mode styling, aligning it with the rest of the UI.
• Navigation icons have been updated to clearly indicate selected and disabled states.
• Thumbnail loading now works correctly when triggered by viewport resizing.
• Android system navigation bar now respects dark mode settings for a more seamless appearance.

IDRViewer Light Theme

IDRViewer Dark Theme

Fixes & Performance Improvements

• Fixed an issue where text was incorrectly hidden due to overlapping opaque images with blend modes.
• Removed incorrectly added text from search.json that wasn’t visible in the HTML/SVG output.
• Resolved a font rendering issue on Windows by forcing CFF fonts to use decimal values for ExpansionFactor.
• Corrected a bug where a visible layer was wrongly treated as hidden during rendering.
• Improved crop/clip boundary detection prevents unintended exclusion of text near the edges.

Explore the full release notes and documentation to see how these updates enhance BuildVu’s reliability and developer experience.