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The State Office for Health and Social Affairs Berlin uses axesWord to create accessible documents directly in Microsoft Word and efficiently meet legal accessibility requirements. Broad adoption across departments reduces errors, speeds up document processes, and integrates accessibility into everyday workflows.

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Math in PDF files is finally fully accessible, and can be navigated and read by capable assistive technology. This development, aligning creation software, modern PDF standards, compatible viewers and assistive technology, finally closes the accessibility gap between the web and downloadable STEM documents.

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callas software today announced the appointment of Natacha De Kegel as Customer Success Manager for North America, effective March 1st, 2026.

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The newest iLovePDF update brings practical AI features, clearer admin controls, and performance improvements designed to make work simpler.

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A PDF icon doesn’t mean that the link goes to a PDF | Register for PDF Week London | Save the date for ISO Week in South Korea | LLM text extraction paradox | Share tokens instead of documents? | Replace PDF with… Markdown? 😆😂😭 | Epstein PDFs analysis continues | Redacting content versus hiding content, explained | Chrome now supports JPEG-XL | Super Mario 64 in a PDF | Brotli gains media attention | PDFacademicBot for February 2026

PAdES B-T Digital signature now supported

Datalogics now makes it easier to create PAdES B-T digital signatures in PDF documents by generating signatures directly through a dedicated PAdES signature class in the SDK.

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Now marking its 20th year in operation, the PDF Association evolved from a collaboration of five German companies focused on PDF/A (ISO 19005-1) to a global, vendor-neutral hub for PDF technology standards.

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PDF accessibility just got easier in the U.S. – PDFix brings its automated remediation tools, proven with business enterprises, state agencies, and top universities, directly to the American market with a dedicated local leadership team ready to help organizations scale accessibility.

Adobe Standards Support Endowment

Adobe has renewed its Standards Support Endowment for 2026, marking the 8th year of this program.

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When a Texas county faced thousands of PDFs and an ADA compliance deadline, they didn’t hire more staff – they built a machine. Discover how Jefferson County used PDFix SDK to automate accessibility remediation at scale, processing up to 30,000 pages monthly without a single manual intervention.

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