The PDF Association @PDFassociation announced their "all-new" Product Showcase in January. The new interface provides an improved search, and the ability to search by product types, standards, and features.
For example, you can search for only open source or no-cost solutions. Or ones that offer Tagged PDF or PDF/UA-1 or 2. Or filter the results to only list those who offer "Remediate Tagged PDF" service.
https://pdfa.org/product-showcase
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@skye @pkiff Perhaps this might be helpful:
PDF/UA – a structured PDF especially suited for accessibility.
LibreOffice (free software for Win, Mac and Linux) supports and exports PDF/UA.
Some time ago I wrote an article about how to get accessible PDF out of LibreOffice.
For your task you only have to take care of the doc title, the language setting, headlines, text and proper lists.
#PDFUA #accessiblePDF #LibreOffice
https://www.alexandra-oettler.de/2025/tips-for-accessible-pdf-files-from-libreoffice
Interessante Neuigkeiten für MadeToPrint: axaio hat unter anderem im Newsletter mitgeteilt, dass es im InDesign-Plug-in eine neue Export-Option für barrierefreies PDF gibt.
»MadeToPrint kann nun, mit Hilfe von MadeToTag, PDF/UA-Dokumente ausgeben. So kann z. B. ein druckfertiges PDF und ein barrierefreies PDF in einem Schritt exportiert werden […]«
https://www.axaio.com/doku.php/de:products:madetoprint:releasenotes
#InDesign #PDFUA #MadeToTag #MadeToPrint #axaio #accessibility
Does anyone have experience of creating accessible PDF files using the old InDesign 8.1/CS6 software?
I can create the missing PDF/UA markup using an ExifTool script on a Mac, but will CS6 (InDesign v8.1) be sufficient for structural accessibility? Or will I encounter limitations?
Is the current version of InDesign significantly better?
#InDesign #PDFUA #a11y #PDF
@djwudi Thanks for sharing your initial thoughts. I haven't taken the new Affinity for a test drive yet, but I'm hoping that the new integration of components gave them a chance to rework the native file format and code.
Old Canva was very frustrating for PDF tagging and accessibility, despite years of work to improve it. I always figured that part of Canva's challenge came from technical debt owing to not having had accessibility in mind at the start.
PDF Days Europe 2025:
Here comes the YT playlist with the recordings of all 23 presentations.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfGR40SWnakhgSxXc8y70j7Juo8plKQEU
Also PDF Association has posted an article with an overview of all topics.
https://pdfa.org/recordings-of-pdf-days-europe-2025-available-now/
#PDFAssociation #PDF #PDFA #PDFUA #accessiblePDF #PDFX #Metadata
Und hier nochmals der Link zum originalen Artikel über barrierefreie PDF-Dateien aus LibreOffice in deutscher Sprache.
#LibreOffice #PDFUA #accessiblePDF #accessibility #PDF #Barrierefreiheit
https://www.alexandra-oettler.de/2025/tipps-f%C3%BCr-barrierefreie-pdf-dateien-aus-libreoffice
Some people have asked me to translate my guide on how to create accessible PDF files with LibreOffice into English.
Here it is. With several updates that LibreOffice has now implemented, PDF export works even better!
#LibreOffice #PDFUA #accessiblePDF #accessibility #PDF
https://www.alexandra-oettler.de/2025/tips-for-accessible-pdf-files-from-libreoffice
Die #PDFDaysEurope2025 gingen gestern zu Ende:
Mein erstes Fazit: Zwei Themen waren häufig zu hören – KI und barrierefreie Dokumente. Beide hängen stark mit strukturierten Daten zusammen. Beides geht auf vorhersehbare noch Zeit nicht auf Knopfdruck. Standards helfen auch hier.
Eine schöne Idee am Rande: eine Übersicht zu den Meilensteinen der PDF-Entwicklung, in die die Teilnehmer ihren Einstieg in die Geschichte mit einem Post-it markieren konnten.
Annoyed that assisting technologies refer to text in images as figure?
This was due to limitations with PDF/UA-1.
Now PDF/UA-2 is more flexible and allows to tag images (containing text) as Paragraph, Span, Label or Formula.
Paul Rayius wrote about this on PDF Association.
[Do you know authoring softwares that already supports PDF/UA-2?]
Philip Kiff
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