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+ Metadata-Version: 2.5
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+ Name: outloud
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+ Version: 0.2.0
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+ Summary: What a PDF says out loud: a PDF accessibility checker for the terminal, CI and browser. PDF/UA-1 and WCAG 2.2, plus the semantic checks a validator cannot make.
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+ Project-URL: Homepage, https://visionably.ai/research/outloud
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+ Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/visionably/outloud
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+ Project-URL: Documentation, https://github.com/visionably/outloud/blob/main/docs/RULES.md
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+ Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/visionably/outloud/issues
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+ Author-email: Visionably <opensource@visionably.ai>
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+ License-Expression: Apache-2.0
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Keywords: a11y,accessibility,checker,matterhorn,pdf,pdf/ua,tagged-pdf,wcag
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
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+ Classifier: Environment :: Console
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop
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+ Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
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+ Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Quality Assurance
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.10
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+ Requires-Dist: click>=8.1
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+ Requires-Dist: fonttools>=4.40
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+ Requires-Dist: pikepdf>=8.0
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+ Requires-Dist: pymupdf>=1.24
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+ Requires-Dist: pyyaml>=6.0
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+ Provides-Extra: dev
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+ Requires-Dist: pytest>=8; extra == 'dev'
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+ Requires-Dist: ruff>=0.5; extra == 'dev'
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/visionably/outloud/main/docs/img/logo.svg" alt="outloud" width="360">
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+ </p>
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+
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+ <h3 align="center">What a PDF says out loud.</h3>
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+
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+ <p align="center">
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+ The PDF accessibility checker that runs anywhere: PDF/UA-1 and WCAG 2.2, in your terminal, your CI and your browser.<br>
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+ It finds what validators find, and then what they cannot.
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+ </p>
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+
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <a href="https://github.com/visionably/outloud/actions/workflows/ci.yml"><img src="https://github.com/visionably/outloud/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg" alt="tests"></a>
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+ <a href="https://github.com/visionably/outloud/blob/main/LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache%202.0-blue.svg" alt="Apache 2.0"></a>
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+ <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.10%2B-blue.svg" alt="Python 3.10+">
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+ <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/platform-macOS%20%7C%20Linux%20%7C%20Windows-lightgrey.svg" alt="macOS, Linux, Windows">
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+ <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/rules-90-c25c29.svg" alt="90 rules">
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+ <a href="https://github.com/visionably/outloud/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/PRs-welcome-2c6e49.svg" alt="PRs welcome"></a>
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+ </p>
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+
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/visionably/outloud/main/docs/img/app-findings.png" alt="The outloud app: a findings list on the left, the PDF page in the middle with every finding outlined in red or amber, and on the right the page as a screen reader would read it" width="100%">
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+ </p>
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pipx install outloud # or: uv tool install outloud
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+ outloud report.pdf # check it
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+ outloud --view # or open the app and drop files in
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+ ```
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+ No Java. No Windows. No upload. Nothing leaves your machine.
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Why
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+ The standard tools for checking a PDF's accessibility are **PAC**, which is a Windows desktop program, and **veraPDF**, which is a Java validator built for conformance labs. If you are on a Mac, in a CI pipeline, or just want an answer in two seconds, there has been nothing.
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+ And both of them test whether the *keys exist*. A figure has alternative text: pass. A table has header cells: pass. They cannot tell you that the alternative text is `IMG_2041.jpg`, that the header cells are empty, or that a sentence on the page is marked as decoration so every screen reader skips it.
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+ This is a published, professionally remediated report. **veraPDF passes it.** Its appendix table has header cells with nothing in them, so a screen reader announces every value in it against silence:
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/visionably/outloud/main/docs/img/app-real.png" alt="A real 31-page report open in outloud at page 28. One warning, TBL-011: six data cells are associated only with empty header cells. The cells are outlined on the page, and the finding shows its fix." width="100%">
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+ </p>
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+ outloud exists for findings like that one.
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+
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+ ## What you get
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+ **Two layers, kept apart.**
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+ *Conformance* rules test a requirement of ISO 14289-1 (PDF/UA-1), the same ones veraPDF and PAC test, and are calibrated to agree with veraPDF: on 58 one-defect fixtures and 102 real files, they agree on all 160.
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+ *Semantic* rules test what a conformant file still gets wrong: words printed on the page that no tag announces, prose marked as an artifact, header cells that are empty or shredded one word per row, alternative text that is a file name or LaTeX source, a "formula" that swallowed a sentence, a page painted in a different order from its tags, a title that is the file name. Each names its evidence so a person can judge. No validator runs these.
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+ **Every finding tells you what to do.** Page, evidence, the ISO clause and Matterhorn checkpoint it rests on, the WCAG 2.2 criteria it affects, and a one-line fix.
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+
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/visionably/outloud/main/docs/img/terminal.png" alt="Terminal output of outloud on the demo file: four errors and several warnings, each with evidence, the clause and WCAG criteria, and a green fix line; then one-line summaries for PDF/UA-1 checkpoints and WCAG 2.2" width="92%">
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+ </p>
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+
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+ **Pass and fail by criterion, like PAC's two tabs.** Every checkpoint of the Matterhorn Protocol 1.1 (31) and every WCAG 2.2 success criterion at A and AA (55), each with one of five honest statuses: **fail**, **warning**, **pass**, **not applicable** (no forms in this file, so nothing to label) and **needs a person**, with a sentence on what to look at. A file without tables does not "pass" the table rules.
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/visionably/outloud/main/docs/img/app-criteria.png" alt="The criteria tab of the app showing WCAG 2.2: 1.1.1, 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 fail with the rule ids behind them, then criteria that need a person with a note on what to check" width="100%">
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+ </p>
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+ **See where.** Findings carry bounding boxes. The app outlines them on the rendered page, shows the structure tree (click an element to see where it sits), and reads each page back in the order a screen reader would, with artifacts shown as what a reader skips.
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+ **Built for pipelines.** Exit codes, JSON, SARIF 2.1.0 for GitHub code scanning (with the fix as help text and a WCAG taxonomy), and a single-file HTML report.
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+
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+ ## Use
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+ ```bash
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+ outloud file.pdf # findings on the terminal, exit 1 if any error
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+ outloud a.pdf b.pdf reports/ # several files; directories are searched
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+ outloud file.pdf --criteria # add the PDF/UA-1 and WCAG 2.2 tables
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+ outloud out.pdf --source in.pdf # also compare a remediated file with its original
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+ outloud *.pdf --json r.json --sarif r.sarif --html r.html
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+ outloud file.pdf --layer conformance # only what a validator would run
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+ outloud file.pdf --only TBL-011,TAG-003 # or --skip
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+ outloud --list-rules
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+ ```
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+ Verdicts: **pass**, **review** (warnings only), **fail** (at least one error), **unreadable**. `--fail-on warning` makes warnings fail the exit status; `--fail-on never` reports without failing.
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+ Try it on the bundled example, one page with nine different defects:
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+ ```bash
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+ outloud examples/demo.pdf --view
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### The app
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+ ```bash
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+ outloud --view # opens empty: drop PDFs in, pick them, or type a path
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+ outloud report.pdf --view # opens with that file already checked
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+ ```
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+
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/visionably/outloud/main/docs/img/app-drop.png" alt="The empty app: a drop zone that says Drop a PDF here, a link to choose a file, and a box for a path on this machine" width="80%">
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+ </p>
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+ A small local server from the Python standard library. It binds to localhost, keeps dropped files in a temporary folder it removes on exit, and stops with Ctrl+C. Deep links work: `?doc=report&tab=crit&fw=wcag22&f=TBL-011`.
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+ ### In CI
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+ ```yaml
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+ - run: pipx install outloud
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+ - run: outloud dist/*.pdf --sarif outloud.sarif
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+ - uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v3
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+ if: always()
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+ with: { sarif_file: outloud.sarif }
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### As a library
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+ ```python
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+ from outloud import check
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+ result = check("report.pdf")
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+ print(result.verdict, result.errors, result.warnings)
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+ for f in result.sorted_findings():
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+ print(f.rule, f.page, f.message, f.boxes)
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+ for row in result.criteria["wcag22"]:
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+ print(row["id"], row["name"], row["status"])
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+ ```
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+ ## How it compares
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+ | | **outloud** | PAC | veraPDF | pdfa11y |
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+ | Runs on macOS and Linux | ✅ | ❌ Windows only | ✅ needs a JVM | ✅ |
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+ | Command line, exit codes, CI | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
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+ | PDF/UA-1 conformance | ✅ calibrated to veraPDF | ✅ | ✅ reference | ✅ subset |
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+ | PDF/UA-2 | ❌ not yet | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
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+ | Per-criterion view, PDF/UA and WCAG | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
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+ | Not-applicable and needs-a-person statuses | ✅ | partly | ❌ | ✅ per check |
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+ | Semantic checks (tags match the page, words make sense) | ✅ 35 rules | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
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+ | Findings outlined on the page | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
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+ | Screen-reader preview, structure tree | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
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+ | A fix on every finding | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
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+ | JSON, SARIF, HTML | ✅ | PDF report | JSON, XML, HTML | JSON, HTML, PDF |
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+ | Compare a remediated file with its source | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
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+ | Licence | Apache 2.0 | proprietary, free | GPL / MPL | MIT |
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+ Measured on 17 September 2026 on one machine: veraPDF 1.26.5 (`--flavour ua1`) and outloud timed per file including start-up; [pdfa11y](https://github.com/speedata/pdfa11y) (built from its 25 July 2026 source) timed as one process per corpus, which is how it is meant to run.
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+ | Corpus | Files | outloud agrees with veraPDF | pdfa11y agrees with veraPDF | veraPDF | outloud | pdfa11y |
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+ | Fixtures (one defect each, built from scratch) | 58 | 58 of 58 comparable rules | 51 | 34.5 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
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+ | Bank letters, remediated to PDF/UA-1 | 29 | 29 of 29 | 0 | 30.8 s | 6.9 s | 0.8 s |
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+ | Bank letters, as printed by Chrome | 29 | 29 of 29 | 29 | 23.7 s | 2.4 s | 0.3 s |
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+ | Production corpus, originals | 23 | 23 of 23 | 23 | 20.9 s | 9.8 s | 1.2 s |
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+ | Production corpus, remediated | 21 | 21 of 21 | 1 | 20.2 s | 9.5 s | 0.4 s |
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+ On the 21 remediated production files that veraPDF calls compliant, outloud's semantic layer still reports something on 9. Those are the findings the tool is for.
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+ Speed is honest rather than headline: 2 to 10 times faster than veraPDF, mostly because there is no JVM to start, and 5 to 20 times slower than pdfa11y, because the walker is Python and every glyph costs a loop iteration. A compiled core is planned once the rule set settles. pdfa11y is a well-built tool and reading its code made outloud better; where the two disagree, and who we think is right, is written up rule by rule in [`docs/COMPARISON-pdfa11y.md`](https://github.com/visionably/outloud/blob/main/docs/COMPARISON-pdfa11y.md). Run the comparisons on your own files with [`scripts/compare_verapdf.py`](https://github.com/visionably/outloud/blob/main/scripts/compare_verapdf.py) and [`scripts/compare_pdfa11y.py`](https://github.com/visionably/outloud/blob/main/scripts/compare_pdfa11y.py).
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+ ## The rules
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+ 90 rules, 88 implemented, 2 planned and reported as "not run" so the gap is visible. Every rule is data in [`catalogue.yaml`](https://github.com/visionably/outloud/blob/main/src/outloud/rules/catalogue.yaml) and documented in [`docs/RULES.md`](https://github.com/visionably/outloud/blob/main/docs/RULES.md), which is generated from it, along with an index by Matterhorn checkpoint and by WCAG criterion.
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+ | Group | Examples |
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+ | Document | tagged, titled, language, PDF/UA identifier, permissions, optional content, XFA |
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+ | Tagging | untagged content, real content artifacted, role map, shared or dangling marked content, alternative text that hides content |
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+ | Text and fonts | embedding, Unicode mapping, `.notdef`, invisible text, mappings that are legal but wrong |
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+ | Headings | skipped levels, first heading, mixed forms, a heading that is a salutation or a paragraph |
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+ | Tables | headers, scope, nesting, irregular grids, shredded headers, silent headers, a drawn grid nobody tagged |
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+ | Lists, figures, links, forms, notes, math | structure and naming, placeholder alt text, unlinked URLs, field names that are internal ids, LaTeX as alt text |
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+ | Reading order, navigation, pagination | paint order against tag order, bookmarks on long files, running heads tagged as content |
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+ | Source comparison | structure, text and appearance lost between an original and its remediated copy |
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+ ## How it works
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+ `model.py` reads the file once with pikepdf and resolves what is easy to get wrong: role-mapped types, inherited page references, marked content inside form XObjects, attributes by owner, fonts with their Unicode mapping. `content.py` walks each page's content stream and records every painted text run with its characters, position and tag. Glyph-by-glyph text operators are merged into words and lines, kerning gaps become spaces, ligatures are normalised, because otherwise no rule can find a word in a file written by Chrome, Word or TeX. Rules read that model and nothing else, and the registry works out once per file which rules apply.
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+ Fixtures are built from nothing by [`tests/builder.py`](https://github.com/visionably/outloud/blob/main/tests/builder.py): a subset TrueType font with a ToUnicode map, marked content, a structure tree with a parent tree, XMP. Every negative test bends exactly one thing in a clean baseline and asserts that one rule fires.
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+ ```bash
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+ .venv/bin/python -m pytest # 84 tests
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+ .venv/bin/python scripts/make_screenshots.py # regenerates the pictures on this page
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+ ```
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+ ## What it is not
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+ An evaluation, not a certification, and not legal advice. Semantic rules are heuristics; they name what they saw and can be wrong about what it means. A "pass" on a WCAG criterion means the automated rules mapped to it found nothing, not that the criterion is met; the criteria that need a person say so. It does not measure colour contrast yet, tests PDF/UA-1 only, and the Matterhorn failure-condition ids are not yet verified against the protocol text, so the catalogue cites checkpoints.
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+ ## Roadmap
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+ - [ ] Colour contrast (WCAG 1.4.3, 1.4.11)
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+ - [ ] PDF/UA-2
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+ - [ ] Per-element language (3.1.2)
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+ - [ ] A compiled core for the content walker
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+ - [ ] A GitHub Action
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+ - [ ] Heading levels beyond H6, cross-page reading order
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+ ## Contributing
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+ The most useful thing you can send is a PDF that outloud gets wrong. A rule is a catalogue entry, a function and a fixture; [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](https://github.com/visionably/outloud/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) has the five-minute version.
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+ If outloud found something in your files that a validator passed, a star helps other people find it.
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+ ## Licence
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+ Apache 2.0. Built by [Visionably](https://visionably.ai/research/outloud) and released so that checking a PDF for accessibility costs nothing and runs anywhere.