Observed arrival · 2026-10-10
PDF Steward takes on the PDFs accessibility checkers miss
A planned WordPress plugin for finding PDFs in a site’s Media Library, checking common accessibility issues, and flagging files that need human review.
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- Public-sector WordPress site administrators
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- The proposed report distinguishes machine-checkable PDF/UA-1 conditions from issues that still require a person.
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The proposed local scan checks basic document properties, including whether a PDF is tagged, has a title and language, is image-only, and how many pages it contains. For opted-in files, the described service would report veraPDF checks per file; complex tables, forms, math, and scanned pages would be marked for human review. The site says fixes would be saved as new versions, preserving the original.
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