Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] [accessibility] support of PDF UA

Yes, it certainly is! Thanks. :)


Op 7-2-2012 22:00, Tom Davies schreef:
> Hi :)
> I thought some people on the users-list might be able to help a bit more.  I tried to space the answers to make it clearer and tidied a little.  I hope it's still true to what you wanted to say. 
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> --- On Tue, 7/2/12, Jaap van de Putte<info@2useit.nl>  wrote:
>
> Hi Christophe,
>
> My answers are below, between your questions :)
>
> Op 7-2-2012 14:56, Christophe Strobbe schreef:
> > Jaap,
> >
> > At 18:09 4-2-2012, Jaap van de Putte wrote:
> > > (...) For websites the government in the Netherlands is following the accessibility guidelines from 
> > > the W3C, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). (...)
> > >
> > > 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 future 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.
> > I agree this would be nice :-)
> >
> > I found your enhancement request at<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45636>  and I have 
> > a few questions:
> >
> > 1) Last year, I filed an enhancement request to enable tagged PDF by 
> > default:<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39667>. If LibreOffice adds PDF/UA support, 
> > do you think it should be enabled by default?
>
> Personally I shouldn't prefer this, because approximately 95 % of PDFs do not have a proper heading 
> organization or is not elsewhere optimized for accessibility. Choosing a PDF format that includes 
> the structure of a document that hasn't have any structure in the source seems a bit useless ... 
> And in that case it makes the PDF file unnecessary larger.
>
>
> > 2) In the PDF Options dialog box, should "PDF/UA" replace the current "PDF/A-1a" or should it be an 
> > additional check-box?
>
> PDF/A-1a is also used for archive, id est that is the default function of A-1. I am no expert, but 
> I should say that A-1a should be possible too. So PDF/UA would be an extra check-box. But I think 
> this should be questioned to some experts.
>
>
> > 3) If the user checks "PDF/UA" or "tagged PDF", should LibreOffice warn the user about accessibility 
> > issues in the source document? (There is an accessibility checker for Writer, but it is currently only available as an 
> > extension: [shameless plug]<http://sourceforge.net/projects/accessodf/>. It may be submitted to LibreOffice, but it is 
> > in Java, while LibreOffice wants to reduce its dependence on Java.)
>
> I think that would be great. For a lot of people it is too much to install an extension. Does 
> LibreOffice want to use Python in stead of Java? Than, could the extension be rewritten in Python? 
> Of course this would need volunteers ... and I am not a programmer :(
>
> Thanks for your response. It is good to know that PDF accessibility support has the attention of 
> more people.
>
> Kind regards,
> Jaap van de Putte


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