In this section you can find a list of (hopefully useful) resources to help you produce PDF documents that are accessible, as well as test and evaluate the accessibility of pre-existing documents.
Unfortunately, making a PDF document completely accessible is not a piece of cache; this is the reason why my first recommendation on how to make a PDF document accessible is (and perhaps wil be in the foreseen future): “do you really need to distribute that resource as a PDF document? Could you distribute it in a easier to produce, easier to use format (such as a web page) as well?”.
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Mathpix is a cloud platform designed to author, edit and distribute scientific documents (e.g. journal articles, research papers), especially when they contain Math formulas; it provides a web service, a desktop application (available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux), and a mobile app (that supports both Android and iOS).
Read moreIn this document you can get answers to the most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about PAVE (PDF Accessibility Validation Engine), an award-winning web service designed to evaluate and improve the accessibility of PDF documents.
Read moreIn this video from the ICT-Accessibility Lab of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), you can get an introduction to PAVE (PDF Accessibility Validation Engine), an award-winning web service aimed at evaluating and improving the accessibility of PDF documents.
Read moreDeveloped by the ICT-Accessibility Lab of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in collaboration with the Swiss Federation of the Blind and Visually Impaired, PAVE (PDF Accessibility Validation Engine) is an award-winning web service designed to evaluate and improve the accessibility of PDF documents.
Read moreIn this comprehensive tutorial by WebAIM you can get useful directions on how you can use [JAWS], perhaps the most used commercial screen reader, to test and evaluate the accessibility of your web page, application or document as quickly as possible.
Read moreIntroduced by their creators as “the smarter PDF solution”, Abbyy FineReader PDF is de-facto the leading solution with regards to digitizing documents by means of an OCR process, both scanned images and image-PDF files.
Read moreDeveloped as part of the “Infty” project, InftyReader is a commercial desktop application available for Microsoft Windows that allows digitizing scientific documents (including mathematical formulas). More specifically, it can recognize text content and math expressions either from scanned images or PDF documents by performing an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process with a neural network trained with this specific purpose in mind.
Read moreImagining how people with disabilities use the Web and mobile devices can be hard. Reading all those standards, guidelines, specifications, tutorials and whatnot can be daunting, especially if you cannot make sense of the reason why your web content, mobile or desktop applications must satisfy certain requirements.
Read moreIn this informative tutorial from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) you can find a list of tools, techniques, strategies, custom settings and whatnot that people with disabilities may use while browsing the Inter.
Read moreThis informative document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) explores the wide diversity of people and abilities, illustrating conditions that people with disabilities may face while using your products and services (websites, mobile or desktop applications, etc.
Read moreThere is an abundance of web accessibility evaluation tools out there. They differ in features, how they work, the way in which they show evaluation results, type of issues identified, and many other aspects.
Read moreWeb accessibility evaluation tools are tools you can use to evaluate wether web content (websites or applications) meets accessibility standards and guidelines, identifying actual issues and potential ones; some of them are also designed to be used as development aids.
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