Accessible PDF reports (PDF/UA)

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The European Accessibility Act mandates companies to provide digital information it a way that it is accessible to people with disabilities. This not only affects company websites, but also PDF documents, such as pentest reports.

You can create accessible PDFs (PDF/UA) using SysReptor by enabling the "Generate Accessible PDFs" flag in your settings.

The report is then internally structured differently, so screen readers can better access it. We, however, can no longer compress the file, as compression removes ("unnecessary") tags. This results in larger PDF files.

PDF/UA also mandates you to create captions for all images. If you enable the flag, pentesters will receive additional warnings when publishing reports, if captions are missing.