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AS/NZS ISO 14289.2:2025
[Current]Document management applications - Electronic document file format enhancement for accessibility, Part 2: Use of AS/NZS ISO 32000.2 (PDF/UA-2)
AS/NZS ISO 14289.2:2025 specifies how to use the Portable Document Format (PDF) specified in AS/NZS ISO 32000.2 to construct accessible digital documents using PDF technology.
Published: 26/09/2025
Pages: 41
Table of contents
Cited references
Content history
Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Notation
5 Version identification
6 Conformity requirements
6.1 General
6.2 Conforming files
7 Accessible PDF
7.1 Principles
7.2 Using other standards in the PDF/UA context
7.2.1 Accessibility standards
7.2.2 Declarations
7.2.3 Other PDF subset standards
8 File format requirements
8.1 General
8.2 Logical structure
8.2.1 General
8.2.2 Real content
8.2.3 Logical content order
8.2.4 Structure types
8.2.5 Additional requirements for specific structure types
8.2.5.1 General
8.2.5.2 Document and DocumentFragment
8.2.5.3 Part
8.2.5.4 Article (Art)
8.2.5.5 Section (Sect)
8.2.5.6 Division (Div)
8.2.5.7 Block quotation (BlockQuote)
8.2.5.8 Table of Contents (TOC/TOCI)
8.2.5.9 Aside
8.2.5.10 NonStruct
8.2.5.11 Paragraph (P)
8.2.5.12 Heading (Hn) and (H)
8.2.5.13 Title
8.2.5.14 Footnotes and Endnotes (FENote)
8.2.5.14.1 Structure requirements
8.2.5.14.2 FENote Attribute Owner
8.2.5.15 Subdivision (Sub)
8.2.5.16 Label (Lbl)
8.2.5.17 Span
8.2.5.18 Quote
8.2.5.19 Emphasis (Em) and Strong
8.2.5.20 Link and Reference
8.2.5.21 Annot
8.2.5.22 Form
8.2.5.23 Ruby (Ruby, RB, RT, RP)
8.2.5.24 Warichu (WT, WP)
8.2.5.25 List (L, LI, LBody)
8.2.5.26 Table (Table, TR, TH, TD, THead, TBody, TFoot)
8.2.5.27 Caption
8.2.5.28 Figure
8.2.5.28.1 Figure semantics
8.2.5.28.2 Figure properties
8.2.5.29 Formula
8.2.5.29.1 Mathematical expressions
8.2.5.29.2 Non-mathematical scientific formulae
8.2.5.30 Index
8.2.5.31 Bibliographic entry (BibEntry)
8.2.5.32 Code
8.2.5.33 Artifact
8.2.6 Structure attributes
8.2.6.1 General
8.2.6.2 Layout
8.2.6.3 Table, List, PrintField, Artifact
8.2.6.4 ARIA
8.3 Artifacts
8.3.1 General
8.3.2 Use of the Artifact structure element
8.4 Text representation for content
8.4.1 General
8.4.2 Unicode mapping in tagged PDF
8.4.3 Replacements and alternatives for text
8.4.4 Declaring natural language
8.4.5 Fonts
8.4.5.1 General
8.4.5.2 Font types
8.4.5.3 Composite fonts
8.4.5.3.1 General
8.4.5.3.2 CIDFonts
8.4.5.4 CMaps
8.4.5.5 Embedding
8.4.5.5.1 General
8.4.5.5.2 Subset embedding
8.4.5.6 Font metrics
8.4.5.7 Character encodings
8.4.5.8 Unicode character maps
8.4.5.9 Use of .notdef glyph
8.5 Real content without textual semantics
8.5.1 General
8.5.2 Use of ActualText
8.6 Text string objects
8.7 Optional content
8.8 Intra-document destinations
8.9 Annotations
8.9.1 General
8.9.2 Semantics and content
8.9.2.1 General
8.9.2.2 Annotations as artifacts
8.9.2.3 Markup annotations
8.9.2.4 Annotation types
8.9.2.4.1 Text
8.9.2.4.2 Link
8.9.2.4.3 Free text
8.9.2.4.4 Line, square, circle, polygon and polyline
8.9.2.4.5 Text markup
8.9.2.4.6 Caret
8.9.2.4.7 Rubber stamp
8.9.2.4.8 Ink
8.9.2.4.9 Popup
8.9.2.4.10 File attachment
8.9.2.4.11 Sound, movie
8.9.2.4.12 Screen
8.9.2.4.13 Widget
8.9.2.4.14 Printer’s mark
8.9.2.4.15 Trap network
8.9.2.4.16 Watermark
8.9.2.4.17 Redaction
8.9.2.4.18 Projection
8.9.2.4.19 3D and RichMedia
8.9.2.4.20 Other
8.9.3 Order
8.9.3.1 General
8.9.3.2 Association with content
8.9.3.3 Tab order
8.9.4 Alternative descriptions
8.9.4.1 Contents entries
8.9.4.2 Alt properties
8.10 Forms
8.10.1 General
8.10.2 Context
8.10.2.1 General
8.10.2.2 Labels
8.10.2.3 Contents entry
8.10.2.4 TU entry
8.10.3 Fields
8.10.3.1 General
8.10.3.2 Button fields
8.10.3.2.1 General
8.10.3.2.2 Push-button
8.10.3.2.3 Check boxes and radio buttons
8.10.3.3 Text fields
8.10.3.4 Choice fields
8.10.3.5 Signature fields
8.10.4 Non-interactive forms
8.11 Metadata
8.11.1 General
8.11.2 Interactive aspects
8.12 Navigation
8.12.1 General
8.12.2 Outlines
8.12.3 Page labels
8.12.4 Article threads
8.13 Actions
8.13.1 General
8.13.2 ECMAScript actions
8.13.3 URI actions
8.14 Use of embedded files
8.14.1 Descriptions for embedded files
8.14.2 Use of associated files
Annex A
Annex B
B.1 Standard layout attributes
B.2 Standard list attributes
B.3 PrintField attributes
B.4 Attributes specific to table structure types
B.5 Attributes specific to the Artifact structure type
Bibliography
Cited references in this standard
[Current]
Document management applications — Electronic document file format enhancement for accessibility — Part 1: Use of ISO 32000-1 (PDF/UA-1)
[Current]
Document management - Portable Document Format - PDF 1.7 and 2.0 structure namespace inclusion in ISO 32000-2
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