The deadline came and was pushed forward. Higher ed was last month supposed to be able to post all on-line documents as PDF/UA compliant. They have another year.
MS Office is able to meet the compliance standards right now with minor modifications.
And what about Apple Creator Studio? Any developments there? Nein. Nada. Nope. Not at all. … Just crickets (or worse).
It is a sad day that Apple cannot deem it worth their effort to keep their PDFKit toolbox up to date.
And so a question: Is anyone developing AI tools to automate to help streamline translate PDF documents to PDF/UA compliance standards?
I suggest otherwise that, absent real, significant changes to attend to the demand for ADA compliance in PDF documents, Apple Creator Studio will become an overpriced toy of no use for instructors in US Higher Ed.
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JJW
I work at a university and thankfully we get licenses for Acrobat Pro, so I can use Creative Studio to edit and then use pre-flight to convert. I don’t see this as a particularly challenging workflow and would also use Acrobat with Word exports to create PDF/UA, as I trust Adobe more than Microsoft when it comes to adhering to standards.
I think an Adobe license is standard at most universities (I’ve worked at more that 6 insitiutions and all of them provided a license for full time staff).
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I agree. But sometimes, it is also about having only one app to complete an entire workflow. Especially when one app (MS Word->PDF) can be successful in a majority of cases and yet another app (Apple Pages->PDF) cannot even do a baseline. Granted …
… That the conversion is easy is good to hear. I’m testing PDFFix as an option on PDFs created in other apps (Curio in this case).
I wish that all universities were as fully engaged in the success of their faculty and staff as by your experiences (sadly, my institution was not).
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JJW