Accessible PDFs

Images, which are not used only as decorative element, are mostly presented with an additional text, the caption. In a documentation Adobe describes how this combinations of image and text could be made accessible.
All content of this element, including also the text, should be integrated in the tag for images (figure). This figure-Tag contains the [...]

Adobe has missed a chance to put the technology for accessible PDFs on solid ground. Only three minor features are new in the new version Adobe Acrobat 9.

A tool to repair tables with the TouchUp Read Order tool
A improvement of the TouchUp Read Order tool: support for editing multiline text blocks and a better support [...]

I created a wide example file, which can show how a tag tree of a accessible PDF document could be built. You can find this example after the publishing of my article in the iX-magazine on the ftp-server at Heise Verlag.