Comments close on the Section 508 NPRM

The comment window has now closed on the US Access Board’s NPRM for the refresh of Section 508.

While oriented towards WCAG 2.0, the NPRM included PDF/UA as an option for PDF documents.

PDF Association Executive Director Duff Johnson, the chair of the US committee for PDF/UA since 2005, delivered two sets of comments to the US Access Board pertaining to PDF/UA.

In his testimony Duff argued the case for interoperability, proposing that the Access Board should explicitly require PDF/UA for PDF documents covered by the regulations.

In addition to his own testimony, Duff has analyzed the other comments discussing PDF/UA, and has summarized them in a blog post.