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Correcting "Last Mile" Errors - Quality Assurance of PDF/UA Documents without Being a Developer

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With the ISO-standard PDF/UA-1 and the free PDF accessibility checker (PAC) 2 it is possible to validate PDF documents for accessibility very easily based on clearly defined requirements. But users who evaluate their documents are often faced with hard to correct errors because the mainstream authoring programs do not fully support PDF/UA yet. Remediation is tedious and time-consuming and sometimes even impossible with available tools. Therefore we worked out the main "last mile" errors and developed a special tool for "quickfixing" these errors – even for document authors without PDF accessibility knowledge on expert level. In this paper we present this approach and the tool.

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  1. axesPDF QuickFix: http://www.axespdf.com

  2. Erle, M., Hofer, S.: Validity and Semantics – Two Essential Parts of a Backbone for an Automated PDF/UA Compliance Check for PDF Documents. In: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds.) ICCHP 2012, Part I. LNCS, vol. 7382, pp. 617–620. Springer, Heidelberg (2012)

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  4. MatterhornProtocol_1-0 PDF/UA Conformance Testing Model developed by the PDF/UA Competence Center, http://www.pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/MatterhornProtocol_1-011.pdf

  5. PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC) 2 from the Access for All Foundation (Switzerland), is a free PDF/UA checker, http://www.access-for-all.ch/en/pdf-lab/pdf-accessibility-checker-pac.html

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  1. xyMedia GmbH, Volketswil, Switzerland

    Roberto Bianchetti & Samuel Hofer

  2. Wertewerk, Tuebingen, Germany

    Markus Erle

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  1. Institute “Integriert Studieren”, Johannes Kepler University, Altenbergerstr. 69,, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, M5B 2K3, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Deborah Fels

  3. THIM/EA 4004 CHArt, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, 2 rue de la liberté, 93526, Saint-Denis Cedex, France

    Dominique Archambault

  4. Teiresias Centre, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Peňáz

  5. Institute “Integriert Studieren”, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstraße 11/029, Vienna, 1050, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Bianchetti, R., Hofer, S., Erle, M. (2014). Correcting "Last Mile" Errors - Quality Assurance of PDF/UA Documents without Being a Developer. In: Miesenberger, K., Fels, D., Archambault, D., Peňáz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8547. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_30

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