Document Accessibility checker

Burke Martin · 2024-07-09T18:15:09+00:00

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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

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

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

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.

@Joe Summa Would this be helpful for you?

Bluebeam Legal | Section 508 Accessibility Compliance | Bluebeam

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

Joe Summa

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

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

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

Marco M

Merged these two posts.

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

Joe Summa

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

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

Luke Shiras

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

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