Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] support of PDF UA

Hi :)
I really think it would be best to file a "bug-report" and use the drop-down menus to make it a 
"feature request" but maybe someone on the Users List knows more about future plans in this 
direction.  As i understand it "tagged pdf" is the best option at the moment.  
Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Sat, 4/2/12, Jaap van de Putte <hidden> wrote:

From: Jaap van de Putte <hidden>
Subject: [libreoffice-accessibility] support of PDF UA
To: accessibility@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Saturday, 4 February, 2012, 17:09

Dear people,

I'm new on this list and from the Netherlands. For websites the government in the Netherlands is 
following the accessibility guidelines from the W3C, the Web Content Accessibiliy Guidelines 
(WCAG). There are 3 levels of compliance and we will follow level AA. Also have we extended these 
guidelines with a number of extra rules. Together they form the Web Guidelines (Webrichtlijnen in 
Dutch).

According to these Web Guidelines, government sites are obliged to offer their documents in an open 
and accessible format. For now the possibilities of LibreOffice in exporting a file are sufficient: 
you have to export it to PDF/A-1a. In the near futere it will be necessary to use a new subversion 
of PDF, PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility). PDF/UA is more accessible than PDF/A-1a. More about this 
format you can read on ow.ly/8RxcQ <http://t.co/GZLiHl8b>.

I am curious if new versions of LibreOffice will make it possible to export files to PDF/UA. If 
LibreOffice is going to support this format, it will make a huge difference when LibreOffice is 
compared to other office suites.  And it wil be must easier to promote LibreOffice to be used by 
government organizations.
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Kind regards,

Jaap van de Putte


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