PDF accessibility and PDF standards
This page collects the information about the development of the methods
to create PDF documents with TeX accoding to PDF/UA accessibility standards,
and other emerging PDF standards.
TUG working group
CTAN packages
- CTAN topic accessible
- tagpdf - Experimenting with tagging
- pdfx - PDF/X-1a and PDF/A-1b support for pdfTeX
- pdfcomment - A user-friendly interface to pdf annotations
- glossaries-accsupp - Acessibility support for glossaries
- axessibility - Accessibility for formulas in PDF files
- accsupp - Better accessibility support for PDF files
Selected papers
- TUGboat
topic accessibility—ongoing collection, currently about a dozen
articles. New TUGboat
submissions most welcome.
- Fischer, Ulrike. latex2nemeth: A direct LaTeX-to-Braille transcribing tool.
TUGboat 42:2, 2021. (latex2nemeth package on CTAN.)
- Veytsman, Boris, and Harcombe, Kieran.
Creating a VPAT statement for TeX Live. TUGboat 42:2, 2021.
- Fischer, Ulrike. Creating accessible pdfs with LaTeX. TUGboat 41:1, 2020.
- Moore, Ross. Semantic Enrichment of Mathematics via
`tooltips', preprint, 2015, tug.org/preprints/moore-mathsem-cicm2015-v7.pdf (see also the full paper in CICM 2015 Proceedings and supporting materials)
- Moore, RossTagged Mathematics in PDFs for Accessibility and other purposes, in
CICM-WS-WiP 2013, Workshops and Work in Progress at CICM, CEUR
Workshops Proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1010/paper-01.pdf.
- Moore, Ross R. PDF/A-3u as an archival format for Accessible
mathematics, in S.M. Watt et al. (Eds.): CICM 2014, LNAI 8543,
pp. 184–199, 2014. https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6126.
- Kohlhase, M. STEX: Semantic
Markup in TEX/LATEX. Documentation of the STEX packages.
https://trac.kwarc.info/sTeX/export/2430/trunk/sty/stex.pdf
- Moore, Ross R. Ongoing efforts to generate ``tagged PDF'' using pdfTeX, TUGboat, 30:2, 170--175, 2009, tug.org/TUGboat/tb30-2/tb95moore.pdf.
Also: Moore, Ross R.; Ongoing efforts to generate “tagged PDF” using
pdfTEX, in DML 2009, Towards a digital Mathematics Library,
Proceedings, Petr Sojka (editor), Muni Press, Masaryk University, 2009.
ISBN 978-80-20-4781-5.
- Kohlhase, M. Using LATEX as a Semantic Markup Format in
Mathematics in Computer Science (2:2) pp. 279–304. Birkhäuser (2008).
- Groza, T, Handschuh S., Möller, K., Decker, S.
SALT — semantically
annotated LATEX for scientific publications. ESWC, number 4519
pp. 518–532. Springer (2007).
Videos
- Sandro Coriasco, Anna Capieto, An automated method based on LaTeX for the realization of accessible PDF documents containing formulae. TUG'18. Video of the talk. Slides. Voiceover. NVDA & JAWS.
- Ross Moore, Authoring accessible Tagged PDF documents using LaTeX. TUG'18. Video.
- Ross Moore, Semantic enrichment of mathematics using `active comments' TUG'15. http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/semantic-enrichment-of-mathematics-using-%E2%80%98active-comments%E2%80%99/.
- Ross Moore, `Fake spaces' with pdftex — best of both worlds, TUG'14. http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/%E2%80%9Cfake-spaces%E2%80%9D-with-pdftex%E2%80%94best-of-both-worlds/.
- Ross Moore, Further advances toward Tagged pdf for mathematics, TUG'11. http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/further-advances-toward-tagged-pdf-for-mathematics/.
- Ross Moore, TeX + MathML for Tagged PDF, the next frontier in mathematical typesetting, TUG'10. http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/tex-mathml-for-tagged-pdf-the-next-frontier-in-mathematical-typesetting/.
- Ross Moore, Towards Tagged PDF, TUG'09. http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/towards-tagged-pdf/.
- Talks and discussions at TUG 2019 (Palo Alto, USA).
PDF standards
- Adobe Systems Inc.; PDF Reference 1.7, November 2006. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html.
- Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1, October 2010
http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/
- 4th International PDF/A Conference Proceedings, October 2010. http://www.pdfa.org/publication/4th-international-pdfa-conference-pdfa-forever/
- Olaf Drümmer and Bettina Chang. PDF/UA in a Nutshell, August 2013. http://www.pdfa.org/publication/pdfua-in-a-nutshell/
- PDF Association. Official PDF Flyer, December 2013. http://www.pdfa.org/publication/official-pdf-flyer-english/
- The Matterhorn Protocol 1.02. PDF/UA Conformance Testing Model, April 2014/ http://www.pdfa.org/publication/the-matterhorn-protocol-1/
ISO standards
- ISO 19005-1:2005; Document Management — Electronic document file
format for long term preservation — Part 1: Use of PDF 1.4 (PDF/A-1);
Technical Committee ISO/TC 171/SC 2 (Sept. 2005). Revisions via Corrigenda:
ISO 19005-1:2005/Cor 1:2007 (March 2007); ISO 19005-1:2005/Cor 2:2011
(Dec. 2011).
http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=38920.
- ISO 19005-2:2011; Document Management —
Electronic document file format for long term preservation — Part 2: Use
of ISO 32000-1 (PDF/A-2); Technical Committee ISO/TC 171/SC 2 (June
2011). http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=50655.
- ISO 19005-3:2012; Document Management — Electronic document
file format for long term preservation — Part 3: Use of ISO 32000-1
with support for embedded files (PDF/A-3); Technical Committee
ISO/TC 171/SC 2 (October 2012).
http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=57229.
- ISO 32000-1:2008; Document management — Portable document
format (PDF 1.7); Technical Committee ISO/TC 171/SC 2 (July 2008).
Also available as [1].
http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=51502.
- ISO 32000-2-20140220; Document management — Portable document
format — Part 2: PDF 2.0; Technical Committee ISO/TC 171/SC 2, in
draft form (Feb. 2014).
- ISO 24517-1:2008; Document Management — Engineering document
format using PDF — Part 1: Use of PDF 1.6 (PDF/E-1); Technical
Committee ISO/TC 171/SC 2 (May 2008).
http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=42274.
- ISO 14289-1:2012; Document management applications
— Electronic document file format enhancement for
accessibility — Part 1: Use of ISO 32000-1 (PDF/UA-1);
Technical Committee ISO/TC 171/SC 2 (July 2012).
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=54564.
Revised as ISO 14289-1:2014 (December 2014):
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=64599.
- PDF/UA Technical Implementation Guide: Understanding
ISO 14289-1 (PDF/UA-1). AIIM Global Community
of Information Professionals. http://www.aiim.org/Re
search-and-Publications/standards/committees/PDFUA/Technical-Implementation
-Guide.
- ISO 16612-2:2010; Graphic technology — Variable data
exchange — Part 2: Using PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-5 (PDF/VT-1 and
PDF/VT-2). Technical Committee ISO/TC 130 (December 2005).
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?
csnumber=38013.
- ISO 15930-1:2001; Graphic technology — Prepress digital
data exchange — Use of PDF — Part 1: Complete
exchange using CMYK data (PDF/X-1 and PDF/X-1a).
Technical Committee ISO/TC 130 (December 2001).
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=29061.
- ISO 15930-3:2002; Graphic technology — Prepress digital
data exchange — Use of PDF — Part 3: Complete
exchange suitable for colour-managed workflows (PDF/X-3).
Technical Committee ISO/TC 130 (September 2002).
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=34941.
- ISO 15930-4:2003; Graphic technology — Prepress digital
data exchange — Use of PDF — Part 4: Complete exchange
of CMYK and spot colour printing data using PDF 1.4
(PDF/X-1a). Technical Committee ISO/TC 130 (December 2003).
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=39938.
- ISO 15930-6:2003; Graphic technology — Prepress digital
data exchange — Use of PDF — Part 6: Complete exchange of
printing data suitable for colour-managed workflows using PDF 1.4
(PDF/X-3). Technical Committee ISO/TC 130 (December 2003).
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=39940.
- ISO 15930-7:2010; Graphic technology — Prepress digital
data exchange — Use of PDF — Part 7: Complete exchange
of printing data (PDF/X-4) and partial exchange of printing
data with external profile reference (PDF/X-4p) using
PDF 1.6. Technical Committee ISO/TC 130 (July 2010).
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=55843.
- ISO 15930-8:2010; Graphic technology — Prepress digital data
exchange — Use of PDF — Part 8: Partial exchange of printing data using
PDF 1.6 (PDF/X-5). Technical Committee ISO/TC 130 (July 2010).
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=55844.
Revision via Corrigendum: ISO 15930-8:2010/Cor 1:2011 (August 2011);
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=60210.
- ISO 16684-1:2012; Graphic technology — Extensible metadata
platform (XMP) specification — Part 1: Data model, serialization and
core properties. Technical Committee ISO/TC 130 (February 2012).
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=57421.
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