What’s new in PAC 2024?
Improved user interface
- Adaptation to the UI style of Windows 11.
- The main window is tidier and simpler.
- PDFs can be dragged and dropped anywhere onto the main window.
- New icons with better contrast and recognizability.
New Quality Checks
PDFs are not only checked against the PDF/UA and WCAG checksets, but also against a set of plausibility rules. For example, while a document that does not contain any header tags is technically correct, this is nevertheless probably an error.
There is a help link for each warning or error in the report window
- For PDF/UA warnings and errors, a Google search is started. (The search is always performed in English, regardless of the language in which PAC is displayed).
- For WCAG warnings and errors, PAC opens the respective documentation.
- For the new quality checks, we call up specific help pages on this website.
Additional improvements
- Improved contrast check: many false positives in PAC 2021 have been fixed.
- The report window contains the same three columns (Passed / Warning / Error) as the main window.
- You can choose the language in which PAC is executed.
- The screen reader preview loads around 40% faster, and subsequent previews are much faster.
- The preview uses the latest Windows browser (Edge) instead of the outdated Internet Explorer.
- The PDF renderer also works faster.