[community] Article about the accessibility of scholarly PDFs

[Justin Obara]

I was recently shared this article “Uncovering the New Accessibility Crisis in Scholarly PDFs<https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03022v1>” from one of our colleagues in the library community.  I figured it might be of interest for others in the community as well.

Quote from the abstract:

Our findings reveal that less than 3.2% of tested PDFs satisfy all criteria, while a large majority (74.9%) fail to meet any criteria at all. Worse yet, we observe a concerning drop in PDF accessibility since 2019, largely among open-access papers, suggesting that efforts to improve document accessibility have not taken hold and are on a backslide.

Thanks
Justin