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Re: How is PDF accessibility evaluated?

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From: Susan Grossman
Date: Feb 6, 2015 1:02PM

WCAG 2.0 has standards for PDF's located here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/pdf.html

Character encoding was under under Checkpoint 1.5 in WCAG 1.0 (
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG-PDF-TECHS-20010913/#checkpoint1-5 ). Think
it would now fall under PDF7 in 2.0.

Susan



On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Lynn Holdsworth < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> If a PDF document forms part of a website, is WCAG2 used to evaluate
> its accessibility?
>
> If so, does character encoding come into play, and what checkpoint
> should an inappropriate encoding value be failed under?
>
> Thanks as always, Lynn
> > > >



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