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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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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.

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By PDF Association staff
November 2025

Recently identified PDF digital signature vulnerabilities

March 2019 by Duff Johnson
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On February 25, 2019, researchers from Ruhr University Bochum  and Hackmanit GmbH published pdf-insecurity.org, a detailed explanation of several vulnerabilities they had identified in PDF viewers and online validation services relevant … Read more

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February 2019 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Association, the meeting place of the PDF industry, decided to create the Electronic Document Conference for a simple … Read more

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February 2019 by Dietrich von Seggern (callas software GmbH)
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When working with support cases the ones that are related to Overprint in PDF are likely to surprise customers. It … Read more

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January 2019 by Dietrich von Seggern (callas software GmbH)
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Today’s world of Information Technology has opened the doors in many ways in order to integrate people with disabilities into … Read more

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October 2018 by Duff Johnson
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How do we gain insight into how users’ views of documents are shifting? Google Trends is an increasingly interesting source … Read more

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October 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Techniques Accessibility Summit’s objective is to establish a broad-based understanding of how PDF files should be tagged for … Read more

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September 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The typical adoption curve for PDF technologies until approximately 2007 tended to track with that of the original PDF developer. … Read more

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August 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Techniques Accessibility Summit will identify best-practices in tagging various cases in PDF documents. Questions to be addressed will … Read more

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July 2018 by Duff Johnson
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My hospital emailed me a medical records release form as a PDF. They told me to print it, fill it, … Read more

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June 2018 by PDF Association staff
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You missed the PDF Days Europe 2018? Never mind! Here you can find the slides and video recordings of all … Read more

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June 2018 by Duff Johnson
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PDF/UA, like PDF itself, is internally complex, but used correctly, actually makes things easier.

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