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PDF Accessibility of Research Papers: What Tools are Needed for Assessment and Remediation?

Aravind Jembu Rajkumar · Jonathan K. Lazar · J. Bern Jordan · Alireza Darvishy

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Digital Accessibility for Disabilities Usability and User Interface Design Mathematics, Computing, and Information Processing

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Trillions of documents online are in PDF format, but only a small amount of these PDF documents include the necessary markup to make them accessible for people with disabilities. This paper presents the results of three related data collection efforts: a survey (with 61 participants), interviews (with 6 participants), and usability testing (with 6 participants), to learn more about what tools are needed for content contributors, to assist them in the assessment and remediation of accessibility in PDF documents. The paper provides suggested features and usability needed for software tools to support PDF document accessibility, as well as implications for content creators, scientific publishers, as well as the creator of the PDF format, Adobe.

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2007What Frustrates Screen Reader Users on the Web: A Study of 100 Blind Users 2015The Portable Document Format (PDF) accessibility practice of four journal publishers 2015Creating accessible PDFs for conference proceedings 2016An Uninteresting Tour Through Why Our Research Papers Aren't Accessible

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