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New Accessibility Techniques for PDF: Lists

November 2025 by PDF Association staff

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.

Proper tagging supports assistive technologies, ensures correct list semantics (ordered, unordered, nested, etc.), and enables accurate reflow and conversions. The provided techniques and failure examples cover all basic types of lists and address common pitfalls. As always, these techniques are vendor-neutral and community-maintained.

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.

Proper tagging supports assistive technologies, ensures correct list semantics (ordered, unordered, nested, etc.), and enables accurate reflow and conversions. The provided techniques and failure examples cover all basic types of lists and address common pitfalls. As always, these techniques are vendor-neutral and community-maintained.

Five reasons members’ marketing executives should participate in PDF Days Europe

April 2018 by PDF Association staff
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Here are five reasons why industry professionals in marketing, business development and sales should attend at PDF Days Europe 2018.

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April 2018 by PDF Association staff
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To maximize both the opportunities and the benefits of testing, the third PDF 2.0 interop workshop makes it possible for … Read more

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March 2018 by PDF Association staff
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PDF Days Europe, the annual PDF technology education event, will take place from 14 to 16 May 2018 in Berlin … Read more

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March 2018 by PDF Association staff
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PDF Days Europe, the annual PDF technology education event, will take place from 14 to 16 May 2018 in Berlin … Read more

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February 2018 by PDF Association staff
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Following the success of our previous interop workshops in Cambridge, England and Boston, Massachusetts, the 3rd PDF 2.0 Interop Workshop … Read more

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February 2018 by PDF Association staff
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Fittingly for the tenth anniversary of PDF’ becoming an ISO standard, standardization will play a significant role this year. The … Read more

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February 2018 by PDF Association staff
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Richard Cohn, Principal Scientist at Adobe, one of the two co-authors of the original PDF specification in the era of … Read more

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February 2018 by Duff Johnson
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Introduction PDF technology profiles can be leveraged to provide trusted, predictable containers for record types that often present workflow and … Read more

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January 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Association returns to Washington DC next Monday, January 29, 2018 for PDF Day DC, a single day packed … Read more

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December 2017 by Duff Johnson
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PDF files deliver a complete package of information that defines a document; everything that’s needed to represent the text, graphics … Read more

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December 2017 by Duff Johnson
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What is a “document”? A document is a record of some (typically written) content – a publication, a contract, a … Read more

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