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A Strategic Approach to Document Accessibility: Integrating PDF/UA into Your Electronic Content

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2014)

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Many countries, provinces and states have legislation mandating the accessibility of documents and formatted content. There are now existing and emerging standards for specific content formats such as PDF. The question remains as to why there are so many recently produced inaccessible documents if we have tools, legislation and standards clearly mandating accessible documents.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Accessibil-IT, Oakville, Ontario, Canada

    Adam Spencer

  2. Karlen Communications, Paris, Ontario, Canada

    Karen McCall

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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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Spencer, A., McCall, K. (2014). A Strategic Approach to Document Accessibility: Integrating PDF/UA into Your Electronic Content. 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_32

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