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PDF/UA (ISO 14289-1) – Applying WCAG 2.0 Principles to the World of PDF Documents

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2012)

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PDF/UA-1 is an upcoming ISO standard defining accessible PDF. It claims to apply principles established by W3C’s WCAG 2.0 to the world of PDF documents. This paper discusses a mapping table between WCAG 2.0 Success Criteria and clauses in the PDF/UA-1 standard to point out, how and why PDF/UA-1 can indeed be described as an application of WCAG 2.0 principles to PDF. It is to be expected that this as a consequence will speed up adoption of PDF/UA-1 in the field of accessible electronic content.

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References

  1. Achieving WCAG 2 with PDF-UA v0.96, by AIIM’s PDF/UA committee, www.aiim.org

  2. DIS/ISO 14289-1.2 — Document management applications — Electronic document file format enhancement for accessibility — Part 1: Use of ISO 32000-1 (PDF/UA-1); International Organization for Standardization (ISO), www.iso.org

  3. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, W3C Recommendation (December 11, 2008), http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/

  4. Accessibility Support Documentation for PDF, W3C (October 2008), http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/implementation-report/PDF_accessibility_support_statement

  5. Techniques for WCAG 2.0, Techniques and Failures for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, W3C, http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20120103/

  6. PDF/UA, Universal Accessibility, landing page of the PDF/UA within AIIM, http://www.aiim.org/Resources/Standards/Committees/PDFUA

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  1. Callas Software GmbH / Axaio Software GmbH, Germany

    Olaf Drümmer

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St., 94117, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

  3. Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

  4. Institute "integriert studieren", Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Drümmer, O. (2012). PDF/UA (ISO 14289-1) – Applying WCAG 2.0 Principles to the World of PDF Documents. In: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_89

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