I listened to the German document. The picture at the top is read as “Bundesadler”, so an alternate text is found and used. The rest is just verbatim text-to-speech.
Acrobat can also create an accessibility report, which I am attaching.Title: Acrobat Accessibility Report
Accessibility Report
- Filename:
- acc.pdf
- Report created by:
- Matthias Weber
- Organization:
[Personal and organization information from the Preferences > Identity dialog.]
Summary
The checker found problems which may prevent the document from being fully accessible.
- Needs manual check: 2
- Passed manually: 0
- Failed manually: 0
- Skipped: 1
- Passed: 14
- Failed: 15
Detailed Report
Document | ||
| Rule Name | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility permission flag | Passed | Accessibility permission flag must be set |
| Image-only PDF | Passed | Document is not image-only PDF |
| Tagged PDF | Failed | Document is tagged PDF |
| Logical Reading Order | Needs manual check | Document structure provides a logical reading order |
| Primary language | Passed | Text language is specified |
| Title | Passed | Document title is showing in title bar |
| Bookmarks | Passed | Bookmarks are present in large documents |
| Color contrast | Needs manual check | Document has appropriate color contrast |
Page Content | ||
| Rule Name | Status | Description |
| Tagged content | Failed | All page content is tagged |
| Tagged annotations | Passed | All annotations are tagged |
| Tab order | Failed | Tab order is consistent with structure order |
| Character encoding | Passed | Reliable character encoding is provided |
| Tagged multimedia | Passed | All multimedia objects are tagged |
| Screen flicker | Passed | Page will not cause screen flicker |
| Scripts | Passed | No inaccessible scripts |
| Timed responses | Passed | Page does not require timed responses |
| Navigation links | Passed | Navigation links are not repetitive |
Forms | ||
| Rule Name | Status | Description |
| Tagged form fields | Passed | All form fields are tagged |
| Field descriptions | Passed | All form fields have description |
Alternate Text | ||
| Rule Name | Status | Description |
| Figures alternate text | Failed | Figures require alternate text |
| Nested alternate text | Failed | Alternate text that will never be read |
| Associated with content | Failed | Alternate text must be associated with some content |
| Hides annotation | Failed | Alternate text should not hide annotation |
| Other elements alternate text | Failed | Other elements that require alternate text |
Tables | ||
| Rule Name | Status | Description |
| Rows | Failed | TR must be a child of Table, THead, TBody, or TFoot |
| TH and TD | Failed | TH and TD must be children of TR |
| Headers | Failed | Tables should have headers |
| Regularity | Failed | Tables must contain the same number of columns in each row and rows in each column |
| Summary | Skipped | Tables must have a summary |
Lists | ||
| Rule Name | Status | Description |
| List items | Failed | LI must be a child of L |
| Lbl and LBody | Failed | Lbl and LBody must be children of LI |
Headings | ||
| Rule Name | Status | Description |
| Appropriate nesting | Failed | Appropriate nesting |
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Matthias > On 4/4/25, at 3:42 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> > wrote: > > On 4/4/25 20:41, Matthias Weber wrote: >> Hi Pablo, >> >> Thanks for looking into this. I am very new to the requirements, > > Hi Matthias, > > I’m afraid we are all new to what boils down to the EU Accessibility > Directive (and national transposition legal norms). > >> and I don’t know (yet) what defines screen readability and how this >> might be certified. I will investigate. > > I guess that screen readability could be to be read aloud by a screen > reader software. > > BTW, taking samples from four European official journals: > > https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L_202500684 > passes only PDF/A-2A validation. > > https://www.recht.bund.de/bgbl/1/2025/104/regelungstext.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3 > fails both PDF/A-2A and PDF/UA-1 validations. > > https://boe.es/boe/dias/2025/04/04/pdfs/BOE-A-2025-6796.pdf passes only > PDF/A-1A validation. > > https://www.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stb-2025-88.pdf passes only > PDF/A-1A validation. > > From my limited samples, only Germany seems to have thought of having > accessible PDF documents in practice. > >> So far, I have only tried Acrobat on a Mac to see whether I can add >> alternate texts in ConTexT that would be recognized by Acrobat. >> Acrobat says that the document has the accessibility flag checked, >> but that the image is not tagged. Letting it read the document skips >> the image. > > Could you test Acrobat to read alould the PDF document form the > »Bundesgesetztblatt« above? > > The image has an alternative text, but the tagging is not properly mapped. > > Let us know what you find out with Acrobat reading aloud, > > Pablo > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) > archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context > wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________
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