Accessible PDFs

With the release of Acrobat 9 Adobe in general introduces a interesting new version of Acrobat called Acrobat Pro Extended. As the set of features stays the same in all other versions (Reader, Standard and Pro) the version Pro Extended delivers two basic improvements from my point of view

the possibility to integrate video and audio [...]

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 hat eine große Chance vergeben, die Funktionen zur Erstellung barrierefreier PDFs auf ein solides Fundament zu erstellen. Was alles schlecht an der Umsetzung ist werde ich in kommenden Beiträgen beschreiben. Für den Moment hier kurz die Neuerungen in Acrobat 9, gefunden auf dieser Seite:
What´s new in Acrobat 9 accessibility

Ein Werkzeug zur Tabellenreparatur innerhalb des [...]