Tuesday, September 4, 2012 Melbourne, Australia. NetCentric Technologies, the world’s leading PDF accessibility vendor and maker of CommonLook suite of tools and services, will be joined by NV Access and Vision Australia in an unique educational event: “Introducing PDF/UA, the new ISO Standard for Accessible PDF Electronic Document Technology.” This event is the first stop … Read more
Duff Johnson to speak at the AHG Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference 2012 on November 14, 2012, about the new PDF/UA standard.
To promote awareness of PDF/UA, the forthcoming ISO Standard for accessible PDF, the PDF Association has partnered with the non-profit-organisation Access for All to solicit its members and others to join in helping the Australian non-profit NV Access enhance their popular open source NVDA screen reader to become the first assistive technology to conform to an ISO standard for accessibility.
Auf dem Hintergund des PDF/UA-Standads der ISO wird erwartet, dass PDF sich zu einem barrierefreien Dokumentenformat erster Güte entwickelt. Wie das aussehen könnte, erfährt man auf der PDF/UA Session der ICCHP 2012-Konferenz in Linz.
Für E-Books benötigte Strukturen sind auch ganz ohne XML erreichbar z.B. mit PDF/UA.