PDF accessibility (checklist)
PDF is generally not a format in which content is created but made available. Formatting and settings must therefore already be made in the document to be exported. This tabular PDF checklist shows you what you need to pay attention to in terms of accessibility.
In this checklist, you can tick off the points you have already implemented for an accessible PDF document. You can continue ticking off points at any time.
It is also important to know that the steps described here are a good and important start towards more accessibility, but they do not fulfil the legal requirements for a PDF document. These stipulate a so-called "UA-compliant" PDF document, which can currently only be produced using an additional, chargeable tool (e.g. axes4, CommonLook). For further information and a more detailed procedure for UA-compliant PDFs, there are additional checklists, e.g. from Barrierefreies Webdesign (2006).