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PDF Accessibility Compliance
- Tuesday, 11th November 2025
We have been reviewing and reworking our S1000D Standard XSL-FO stylesheets to ensure compliance with the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and U.S. Section 508 (Sec508).
Unfortunately, none of the EAA & Sec508 requirements are handled by the W3C XSL-FO specification which means our stylesheets must use accessibility “extensions” provided by the different FO Processors.
While Docuneering still maintains vendor-neutrality, the following FO Processors were used during this review and rework process with our initial results posted as follows:
- Apache FOP (Failed)
- Antenna House (Passed - with "possible" exceptions)
- RenderX (In progress)
Apache FOP (Failed)
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S1000D Issue 4.2 - BIKE Dataset - Apache FOP
PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC) - Summary
Source PDF file:
BUG List
The following BUGS have been logged in the Apache FOP JIRA system:
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-3273
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-3282
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-3283
Antenna House (Passed with "possible" exceptions)
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S1000D Issue 4.2 - BIKE Dataset - Antenna House Formatter
PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC) - Summary
Source PDF file:
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