Open AccessAre PDF Documents Accessible?
Author(s) -
Mireia Ribera
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
information technology and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.502
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5226
pISSN - 0730-9295
DOI - 10.6017/ital.v27i3.3246
Subject(s) - computer science , world wide web , reading (process) , information retrieval , adobe , multimedia , library science , political science , law
Adobe PDF is one of the most widely used formats in scientific communications and in administrative documents. In its latest versions it has incorporated structural tags and improvements that increase its level of accessibility. This article reviews the concept of accessibility in the reading of digital documents and evaluates the accessibility of PDF according to the most widely established standards