Bug 45636

Summary:	ACCESSIBILITY: Add support for PDF/UA (PDF/Universal Accessibility) - ISO 14289
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Jaap van de Putte <info>
Component:	Printing and PDF export	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	high	CC:	cno, c_strobbe-fdo, sasha.libreoffice, vstuart.foote
Version:	3.4.5 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67866
Whiteboard:	BSA
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	60251

Description Jaap van de Putte 2012-02-04 23:38:18 UTC

I do not have a bug, but I have a future request. In our discussion group accessibility I was advised to use this bug-report. If it is the wrong place I'm sorry.

I'm from the Netherlands. For websites the government in the Netherlands follows 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.

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'm seeing forward for your answer

Kind regards, Jaap van de Putte

Comment 1 Christophe Strobbe 2012-02-08 06:33:40 UTC

At the time of writing ISO 14289 has not yet been published as an ISO standard; this is expected to happen in 2012. 

"PDF/Universal Accessibility" could be a checkbox on the "General" tab of the PDF Options, probably between "PDF/A-1a" and "tagged PDF". 

(I turned this bug into an enhancement request.)

Comment 2 sasha.libreoffice 2012-05-15 03:22:01 UTC

Thanks for new idea. In 3.5.3 I can not find option PDF/UA.
Suppose that not implemented yet and change status to NEW.

Comment 3 Christophe Strobbe 2013-08-06 19:19:23 UTC

As a follow-up to my previous comment: the standard defining PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility) was published last year as ISO 14289-1:2012. Perhaps more useful is the technical implementation guide at http://www.aiim.org/Research-and-Publications/standards/committees/PDFUA/Technical-Implementation-Guide. 

The closest counterpart of this bug in the Apache OpenOffice bugtracker is https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=31324.

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