PDF/UA experience?

[raphaelm]

Is there anyone here with experience with PDF/UA? There seems to be almost none open tooling around it out there at all.

Are there freelancers among the amazing pypdf contributors that would be interested in investingating creating better open PDF/UA tooling with us (for money)?

[j-t-1]

AUGUST 12, 2024: The PDF Association and leading PDF accessibility companies Allyant, Axes4, CDP Communications and TargetStream Technologies, are today making the ISO standards for accessibility in PDF technology - ISO 14289-1 (PDF/UA-1), ISO 14289-2 (PDF/UA-2) and ISO TS 32005 - available at no cost.

Although users worldwide benefit from PDF’s accessibility features, adoption of accessibility standards for PDF technology has lagged because a significant portion of the ecosystem can’t or won’t pay for expensive ISO publications. Without a no-cost specification it’s very hard to reach all these developers, remediators and other users.

Starting today, all PDF users can begin to leverage ISO-standardized accessibility requirements for content in the PDF file format:

• End users who need assistive technology in order to navigate and read digital documents can use these standards to foster improved products and services.
• Organizations can use these standards to set goals for the documents they create, ingest or manage.
• Document remediators can use these standards in performing professional services related to ensuring PDF files are accessible.
• Software developers can these standards as guidance in developing software to create and process tagged PDF.

https://pdfa.org/announcing-no-cost-access-to-pdfs-accessibility-standards/