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Re: How is PDF accessibility evaluated?

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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Feb 6, 2015 1:25PM

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

Clarification: these are Techniques, not Standards… a non-trivial distinction.

> 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.

Character encoding is understood (broadly) as required by SC 1.3.1. If such encoding is not correct the text is not programmatically accessible.

Duff.