Duff Johnson, Vorsitzender des PDF/UA-Komitees in den USA, hat auf seiner Website eine Übersicht zu PDF/UA-Programmen zusammengestellt und skizziert die Geschichte zum Standard für barrierefreie PDF-Dateien.
Longtime chairman of the US Committee for PDF/UA, Duff Johnson maintains a page listing software providing PDF/UA functionality as well as an updated history of PDF/UA.
Accessibility isn’t easy. For implementers and product managers alike who are responsible for supporting accessibility in PDF, this article describes how the Matterhorn Protocol can help speed progress towards PDF/UA conformance.
The Sunlight Foundation PDF Liberation Hackathon will be held at 6 locations on the Jan 17-19, 2014, weekend. It will focus on applying PDF extraction technologies to real world problems. For more information, please see http://pdfliberation.wordpress.com.
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.