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Guides, laws and our own data on accessible PDFs: what applies, what it takes, and where things stand.
11,864 PDFs, 504,259 pages, checked with veraPDF: 24.9% of the documents from five Austrian federal ministries meet PDF/UA-1. The numbers at a glance.
We crawled the websites of 382 public institutions in Austria and checked every PDF we found against PDF/UA-1. 5.8% pass. The key findings.
European Accessibility Act, Web Accessibility Directive, BaFG, BFSG, BITV, EN 301 549 and PDF/UA: which rule applies to whom, since when, and what it means for PDFs. As of October 2026.
Since 28 June 2025, new accessibility duties apply in Austria and Germany. A practical guide for companies: who is covered, what is required, and what matters for documents and PDFs.
veraPDF tells you whether a PDF meets the machine-checkable rules of PDF/UA. SVAR asks whether it works for people. Twelve areas, what is checked, and where the limits are.