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2026-04-20 13:46 UTC
The DOJ has delayed its accessibility deadline (April 24) by one year (2027): https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/04/20/2026-07663/extension-of-compliance-dates-for-nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-disability-accessibility-of-web
In other news, the free PAVE tool for fixing PDF accessibility has been upgraded to 2.0. It can still be very time-consuming and complex to fix a single PDF, however. You have to fix all the regions, fix the reading order, etc. of every single page: https://pave-pdf.org/
Open weight LLM AI PDF OCR models are improving: https://huggingface.co/spaces?category=ocr&sort=trending
#accessibility #a11y
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