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The problem is the PDF spec itself is not screen reader friendly.

• myself248 6y ago
  PDF is mostly just a wrapper around Postscript, isn't it? You could just put the original text in comments or something, wrapped in more tags to say what it is.
  • jjgreen 6y ago
    PDF is a document format, Postscript is a Turing complete programming language (and rather a fun one IMHO).
  • pjmlp 6y ago
    No, the ideas are the same, but it follows another implementation concept.
• voltagex_ 6y ago
  The spec isn't, but you can make accessible PDFs. https://www.adobe.com/accessibility/pdf/pdf-accessibility-overview.html https://www.adobe.com/accessibility/pdf/pdf-accessibility-ov... Accessible PDFs are also more easily machine readable.
• pdfsage 6y ago
  It most certainly is! ISO 32000-1 (PDF 1.7) and ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0) are both compliant with PDF/UA (ISO 14289) - the standard for PDF accessibility