Re: [pdf-devel] Logical document structure, tagged PDF and accessibility

[Leonard Rosenthol]

Jason – do you mean support for creation of tagged PDF or consumption/viewing or something else?

I ask because there ARE open source solutions that do generate and consume tagged PDF.  

Also, while not open source, Adobe Reader is available on many platforms for “free” and does exposed both tagged and untagged PDFs to screen readers including ATK (on Linux).

Leonard


On 6/8/09 3:37 AM, "Jason White" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Does this project plan to implement sections 14.7-14.9 of the ISO
> specification? I am interested in the accessibility of PDF documents to people
> with disabilities, and, so far as I know, there isn't an implementation of
> tagged PDF as free software.
>
> If this were implemented, it would be possible for example to convert PDF
> documents to XML, create accessible PDF files, and even expose the logical
> structure of a PDF document via the ATK/AT-SPI accessibility interfaces.
>
> I appreciate that this project may not have reached the point of considering
> such issues yet.

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Leonard Rosenthol
PDF Standards Architect
Adobe Systems Incorporated