Investigating accessibility problems of Arabic PDF documents

Ameera M. Almasoud, Hend Suliman Al-Khalifa
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Portable Document Format (PDF) documents are increasingly being used to disseminate files over the web. PDF is a file format that is independent of the application used to create it. In order to make such file format universally accessible, it needs to follow certain standards defined by W3C. Yet, not all PDF files are equally accessible, especially for blind people. Blind people confront many difficulties with this type of document, in particular Arabic PDF. They are moving away from this type of documents while most of the documents on the web are of this kind. In this paper, we investigate the problems encountered by Arab blind people while accessing Arabic PDF files, and suggest solutions to overcome such problems.
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调查阿拉伯语PDF文档的可访问性问题
可携式文件格式(PDF)文件越来越多地被用于在网上传播文件。PDF是一种独立于用于创建它的应用程序的文件格式。为了使这种文件格式普遍可访问,它需要遵循W3C定义的某些标准。然而,并不是所有的PDF文件都可以平等地访问,特别是对于盲人。盲人在阅读这类文件时遇到很多困难,尤其是阿拉伯文PDF。他们正在远离这种类型的文档,而网络上的大多数文档都是这种类型的。本文调查了阿拉伯盲人在访问阿拉伯语PDF文件时遇到的问题,并提出了解决这些问题的方法。
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