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The PDF Association celebrates its members’ public statements
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Announcing no-cost access to PDF’s accessibility standards

August 2024 by PDF Association staff

Starting today, all PDF users can begin to leverage ISO-standardized accessibility requirements for PDF files:

  • End users who need assistive technology in order to navigate and read digital documents can use these standards to foster improved products and services.
  • Organizations can use these standards to set goals for the documents they create, ingest or manage.
  • Document remediators can use these standards in performing professional services related to ensuring PDF files are accessible.
  • Software developers can these standards as guidance in developing software to create and process tagged PDF.

Thanks to these leading PDF accessibility companies

“Today, the PDF Association is delighted to announce no-cost access to the ISO standards that define the gold standard for accessible PDF files” said Duff Johnson, PDF Association CEO. “We are grateful to the PDF Association’s member sponsors – Allyant, Axes4, CDP Communications and TargetStream Technologies – who have stepped up to make this possible.”

DARPA recognizes the PDF Association’s contributions to SafeDocs

June 2023 by PDF Association staff
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DARPA recognizes the PDF Association’s contributions to its SafeDocs program.

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December 2022 by PDF Association staff
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Adobe releases the source code for an early version of PostScript, the forerunner of PDF.

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November 2022 by PDF Association staff
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DARPA will provide seed funding of $1.3M for research and prototyping centered on reinventing the PDF specification and delivering on … Read more

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October 2022 by PDF Association staff
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In a new podcast episode, SE Radio’s Gavin Henry interviews PDF Association CTO Wyatt and CEO Johnson about a wide … Read more

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July 2021 by PDF Association staff
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Technical resources on pdfa.org are now more understandable and navigable by less technically experienced readers as well as knowledgeable developers.

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April 2021 by PDF Association staff
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Version 1.18 of veraPDF, the industry-supported PDF/A validator, is now available for download, and now includes support for PDF/UA-1 (machine … Read more

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April 2021 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF community was saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Chuck Geschke, one of the visionaries who helped … Read more

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March 2021 by PDF Association staff
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The Technical University of Dresden has created very compact and clear instructions that describe in an easy-to-understand manner how to … Read more

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March 2021 by PDF Association staff
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PDF 2.0 Application Note 003 identifies precise locations for PDF objects’ XMP metadata to help drive interoperability across all PDF … Read more

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February 2021 by PDF Association staff
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A recent article on Medium reveals a nugget regarding PDF usage: “…Adobe reports that in its 2020 fiscal year alone, … Read more

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February 2021 by Peter Wyatt
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The recently-announced pdf-issues GitHub repo already has 25 issues, with 12 proposed resolutions for review in the next PDF TWG … Read more

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