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Techniques for Accessible PDF: Headings

April 2025 by PDF Association staff

Headings are vital in organizing document content, especially with longer or complex documents. For assistive technology, the correct use of headings allows what would otherwise be an undifferentiated stream of text to become a navigable document in which readers can quickly find the content they want to read, and skip the content they don’t want to read.

Getting headings right is especially important with PDF documents, which can be very long, and may include deeply nested headings, multiple documents, document fragments, and more. Accessibility techniques for headings may therefore differ from techniques that are applicable to other technologies such as HTML.

On this basis the PDF Association is pleased to announce its second release of Techniques for Accessible PDF covering headings.

Corel’s latest Technical Suite boasts PDF/A, 3D PDF support

March 2015 by Duff Johnson
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The X7 Technical Suite has been enhanced with new support for ISO standardized PDF technology.

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Adobe Systems announces Acrobat DC as its replacement for Acrobat XI.

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The PDF Association teamed up with Nitro to get as many respondents as possible to a survey of knowledge workers.

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PDF/UA is featured in the US Access Board’s 2015 Notice of Public Rule Making for the Section 508 refresh.

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Karen McCall will be speaking at this year’s CSUN conference about “The Implementation of PDF/UA and Standardized Access to PDF … Read more

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Apache PDFBox becomes a Partner Organization of the PDF Association.

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January 2015 by Duff Johnson
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The Open Preservation Foundation and the PDF Association have signed an agreement to formally recognize their on-going collaborative partnership.

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Electronic invoices: New uniform data format ZUGFeRD saves money and helps SMEs

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A just-published report from the Australian government finds that PDF as a file-format is accessible but that PDF as supported … Read more

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December 2014 by Duff Johnson
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The 2nd edition of PDF/UA is a minor revision, but what’s more exciting is that it conforms to PDF/UA!. Developers … Read more

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