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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.

Apache PDFBox 2.0.0 RC1 released

October 2015 by Olaf Drümmer
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With the initial discussions having started in 2012, PDFBox 2.0.0 has been in the works for quite some time – and now it is in its final stages! Interested parties … Read more

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October 2015 by Duff Johnson
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Firefox will drop support for plugins based on NPAPI by the end of 2016.

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October 2015 by PDF Association staff
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With a month remaining before the doors open for the PDF Accessibility Days in Copenhagen on November 12-13, 2015 , … Read more

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October 2015 by PDF Association staff
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A few weeks ahead of the PDF Accessibility Days 2015 in Copenhagen, Olaf Drümmer interviewed Ted Page, who will be … Read more

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October 2015 by PDF Association staff
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Taken together, PDF’s features describe a format of such flexibility and power that it will define the essential “electronic document” … Read more

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September 2015 by PDF Association staff
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Most browsers now support some basic PDF features natively. What’s next for PDF on the web?

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September 2015 by Duff Johnson
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Announcing a new 3D PDF solution using PRC.

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September 2015 by Duff Johnson
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Paper is still with us: “Digital books accounted last year for around 20 percent of the market, roughly the same … Read more

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September 2015 by Duff Johnson
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2 PDF-packed days; 3 tracks, 37 sessions, and two great keynote speakers: Adobe’s Phil Ydens and Silent Circle’s Jon Callas!

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September 2015 by Duff Johnson
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The 0.4 release includes the first complete (in principle) PDF/A-1b validation profile, and while unverified, tests well against the internal … Read more

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September 2015 by PDF Association staff
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Platform technologies provide the infrastructure for the applications end users actually use, whether some kind of cloud or simply leveraging … Read more

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