Many billions of documents are stored in the Portable Document Format (PDF). These documents contain a wealth of information and yet PDF is often seen as an inaccessible format and, for that reason, often gets a very bad press. In this tutorial, we get under the hood of PDF and analyze the poor practices that cause PDF files to be inaccessible. We discuss how to access the text and graphics within a PDF and we identify those features of PDF that can be used to make the information much more accessible. We also discuss some of the new ISO standards that provide profiles for producing Accessible PDF files.
['Steven R. Bagley', 'Matthew R. B. Hardy']
DOCENG 2014: PDF tutorial