Re: Some links from PDF-23 technique result in 404

Hey, Duff

That does sound very interesting. I’m looking forward to seeing these documents when they start to appear later this year.

I’m not an expert on PDF accessibility but I’m working on getting there. I’d love to find out more about this, especially in relation to the current WCAG Techniques.

Francis

From: Duff Johnson <duff.johnson@pdfa.org>
Date: Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 14:02
To: Storr, Francis <francis.storr@intel.com>
Cc: Vlad Kolpakov <vladyslav.kolpakov@gmail.com>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Some links from PDF-23 technique result in 404
HI Francis, Hi Vlad,

As a side-note, you may or may not be aware that the PDF Association is developing an all-new, comprehensive (within reason) and (very importantly) vendor-neutral set of accessibility techniques for PDF, complete with atomic example PDF files of numerous Pass and Fail cases.

The group’s objective is to publish the initial set of ~40 “fundamental” techniques before the end of 2023, and more thereafter (we have about ~150 in development at this time).

The techniques are modeled on WCAG Techniques in the hope that WAI will be willing to adopt them for use in the context of WCAG’s formally-recognized Techniques.

Although located within the PDF Association, and led by its members, this effort is not limited to PDF Association members. It is conducted under the auspices of the PDF Accessibility Liaison Working Group (LWG)<https://pdfa.org/community/pdf-accessibility-liaison-working-group/>, a type of community which makes it possible for non-members to attend and contribute.

I’m happy to answer questions about these techniques and the development process… and / or simply invite interested parties to email info@pdfa.org<mailto:info@pdfa.org> to inquire about becoming an Invited Expert in order to particiate in this process.

Duff Johnson
PDF Association
pdfa.org




On Aug 17, 2023, at 16:10, Storr, Francis <francis.storr@intel.com> wrote:

Hey, Vlad

The best place to create issues like this is in the WCAG GitHub repo<https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues>. I’m guessing that you’re referring to the PDF1.7 and Adobe XML Forms Architecture links.

If you’re still looking for the PDF 1.7 spec<https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdfstandards/pdfreference1.7old.pdf>, that’s still on Adobe’s site. The 2.0 version of the spec<https://pdfa.org/why-pdf-2-0-is-the-new-pdf-bible/> is available to download for free, but it’s unfortunately not possible to link directly to it.

We’re working on updating the PDF Techniques<https://github.com/w3c/wcag/tree/update-pdf-techniques> to fix broken links, update instructions for apps, etc. Those two links have been dealt with, but we’re not quite finished with the updates.

Thanks!

Francis

From: Vlad Kolpakov <vladyslav.kolpakov@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 12:47
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Subject: Some links from PDF-23 technique result in 404

Hi everyone,

Apologies if this is not the right place to post.

In the 1st paragraph of description of PDF-23<https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/pdf/PDF23> technique there are 2 links, and both of them are not working. If someone could fix the links, that would be great!

Thanks!



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Best,

Vlad