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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.

veraPDF is a finalist at the Digital Preservation Awards 2018

September 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The industry-supported PDF/A validator created by an EU project, veraPDF is one of four finalists for the Digital Preservation Award 2018. The awards ceremony will be held on 29 November … Read more

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August 2018 by PDF Association staff
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PDF Processing Steps allows packaging and product developers and designers to specify post-print workflow components with a PDF file in … Read more

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August 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The Future of Email Archives report calls for the development of email archiving specifications leveraging PDF.

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August 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The US Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is launching a SafeDocs project to develop methods and tools … Read more

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July 2018 by PDF Association staff
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On July 23, 2018 alone, three distinct announcements of PDF 2.0 support from Adobe, Agfa and OneVision appeared in your … Read more

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June 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The world has changed since 1993. PDF, introduced 25 years ago today, has become the dominant final-form electronic document format … Read more

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June 2018 by PDF Association staff
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The ISO committee for PDF/A committee could see into the future. 5 years into the future, to be exact.

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May 2018 by PDF Association staff
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“PDF Products & Services 2018” is now available for download! This volume showcases PDF Association members highlighting the diversity of … Read more

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April 2018 by PDF Association staff
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Google users wondering how to convert… usually want to convert to PDF.

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March 2018 by PDF Association staff
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PDF ISO standards fulfill certain requirements and is preferred in different sectors accordingly but they are not mutually exclusive

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March 2018 by PDF Association staff
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Motherboard, which “…travels the world to uncover the tech and science stories that define what’s coming next for this quickly-evolving … Read more

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