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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In this interactive resources provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) you can view Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, principles, success criteria, techniques for satisfying them, and examples of common failures.
Read moreAlso known as “Stanca Act”, In Italy Law n.4 of January 9, 2004, states that the government must protect the right of every individual to access information sources and services regardless of disability, in line with the principles of equality established by the Italian Constitution.
Read moreIn the United States, The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was the first major federal legislation aimed at ensuring equality for people with disabilities; amended three times (in 1993, 1998, and 2015), today two of its sections directly pertain to web accessibility.
Read moreIn this comprehensive tutorial by WebAIM you can get useful directions on how you can use the free and open source NVDA screen reader to test and evaluate the accessibility of your web page, application or document as quickly as possible.
Read moreAccsupp is an experimental package that provides a low level interfaces for programmers to tag page fragments in PDF documents to improve their accessibility. In other words, it helps making PDF documents generated from LaTeX sources compliant with PDF/UA, and therefore accessible!
Read moreAxessibility is an experimental LaTeX package whose goal is to help authors generate accessible PDF documents from their LaTeX files. It has been designed as an ongoing research project by the Math department at University of Torino, Italy.
Read moreAs its author defines it, tagpdf is “a package to experiment with tagging with PDFLatex and LuaLatex”. It provides low level commands to make these compiler output appropriate “tags” within PDF documents in order to make them compliant with PDF/UA (and therefore accessible!
Read morePDF Accessibility Checker (PAC) is a freeware tool that allows you to perform automated tests on a PDF document in order to asses its conformance to PDF/UA and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
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