Document Accessibility checker

Burke Martin
Burke Martin Posts: 2
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Our local municipalities are requiring all documents submitted to be accessible for individuals with visual disabilities. This means all pdf documents need to pass the accessibility checker that is part of Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft products. We discontinued our Adobe licenses when we changed to Revu so we do not have the ability to check or fix our pdf documents. Without this functionality in Revu we may be forced to change back to Adobe.

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  • Luke Shiras
    Luke Shiras Posts: 336

    Interesting. Do they specify any standards or just say "it must be accessible"?

    I see Adobe refers to these standards which seem to be written around Adobe's software:

    The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 (ISO/IEC 40500:2012) and the PDF/UA (ISO 14289-1) standard cover a wide range of recommendations for making content more accessible to people with disabilities.

  • Burke Martin
    Burke Martin Posts: 2

    Our State has adopted a statute that requires all local municipalities to have digital information that meets WCAG 2.1 AA standards. Since all submittals to the municipalities are public documents they are requireing all of our submittals to meet this requirement.

  • Joe Summa
    Joe Summa Posts: 4

    We required an Accessibility Checker similar to Adobe Pro and were directed to provide this as a feature request.

    We required AODA compliance with a municipality we were working with and this function is not available in Bluebeam Revu 21. May this please be looked into in a feature update as more municipalities will require this standard.

    Thank you!

  • Glynis D.
    Glynis D. Posts: 34
    edited August 10

    @Joe Summa Would this be helpful for you?

    Bluebeam Legal | Section 508 Accessibility Compliance | Bluebeam

    Revu-2020-VPAT.pdf (bluebeam.com)

  • Joe Summa
    Joe Summa Posts: 4
    edited August 10

    Hello,

    Unfortunately not.

    We are hoping for a feature to allow for, in the software itself, to check for the compliances. Currently that form only describes the different compliances. We want to select a compliance standard and apply the check to the file in question.

  • Luke Shiras
    Luke Shiras Posts: 336
    edited August 10

    @Burke Martin was asking about this same thing a month ago.

    https://community.bluebeam.com/bluebeam-community/discussion/467/document-accessibility-checker

  • Marco M
    Marco M Posts: 160

    Merged these two posts.

    Make sure to vote on ideas/feedback you agree with. It helps our Product Team!

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  • Joe Summa
    Joe Summa Posts: 4

    Hello Everyone,

    To help further understand this request, the government of Ontario (Canada) will be mandating AODA compliance as of December 31st, 2024. We need to find a solution in Bluebeam similar to the one found in Adobe Pro by this date.

    https://www.aoda.ca/what-is-the-aoda/

    Your attention to this is very much appreciated.

  • Luke Shiras
    Luke Shiras Posts: 336

    Attn: @spatterson you're not the only one asking about this.

  • Luke Shiras
    Luke Shiras Posts: 336

    @Shanoc Halliday have you seen this and is there any progress being made? I'm sure this will become more common.

  • Shanoc Halliday
    Shanoc Halliday Posts: 39

    Hi @Luke Shiras I have heard of it, mainly from talking to a few CSMs based in the States. I will look into local requirements in Australia and give feedback to the Bluebeam Product team.

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