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New Accessibility Techniques for PDF: Lists

The PDF Association’s third release of its Techniques for Accessible PDF focuses on lists!

This new guidance offers 15 correct (PASS) and 10 incorrect (FAIL) examples of list tagging to help authors properly tag lists in PDF documents. These techniques cover all basic types of lists and address common pitfalls. As always, these techniques are vendor-neutral and community-maintained.

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By PDF Association staff
November 2025

New Accessibility Techniques for PDF: Lists

The PDF Association’s third release of its Techniques for Accessible PDF focuses on lists!

This new guidance offers 15 correct (PASS) and 10 incorrect (FAIL) examples of list tagging to help authors properly tag lists in PDF documents. These techniques cover all basic types of lists and address common pitfalls. As always, these techniques are vendor-neutral and community-maintained.

PDF Association staff

By PDF Association staff
November 2025

Doing PDF right

June 2021 by Peter Wyatt
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Doing PDF right means being aware of errata for PDF 2.0. With over 65 issues now resolved and approved by the PDF Association’s PDF TWG, the body of knowledge in … Read more

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May 2021 by Peter Wyatt
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The PDF Association expands its pdf-issues GitHub repo to cover all ISO standards based on PDF 2.0.

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May 2021 by Peter Wyatt
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The LangSec IEEE S&P Workshop this year includes several PDF-related presentations resulting from SafeDocs research including a paper by CTO … Read more

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May 2021 by PDF Association staff
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An overview of industry working-group activities pertaining to tagged PDF.

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April 2021 by Duff Johnson
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Standards development works best when the expert community is open to diverse and dissenting views. The door is already open … Read more

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April 2021 by Peter Wyatt
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This PDF file tests parsing valid combinations of adjacent PDF tokens both in the body of a PDF as well … Read more

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March 2021 by Thomas Zellmann
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Thomas Zellmann, evangelist from the PDF Association, explains why PDF is not only “digital paper” but also one of the … Read more

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February 2021 by Dietrich von Seggern (callas software GmbH)
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The ISO-standardized PDF format and subset formats facilitate digital document solutions for today and tomorrow.

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February 2021 by PDF Association staff
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EA-PDF establishes high-level requirements for using PDF technology to package email for long-term preservation.

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February 2021 by Michael Karbe (Actino Software GmbH)
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As the AstraZeneca vaccine contract debacle makes clear, redacting PDF involves more than just the page; other objects have to … Read more

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January 2021 by Duff Johnson
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PDF/A-4 is essential to losslessly archiving PDF files that use current-generation PDF 2.0 technology… even including scanned documents. From modern … Read more

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