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Re: Do fonts have to be embedded in a WCAG 2.0 conforming PDF document?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Apr 15, 2015 1:46AM

On 15/04/2015 07:01, Duff Johnson wrote:
> All,
>
> Someone told me today that it's possible to conform to WCAG 2.0 without embedding fonts in PDF documents.
>
> There are no ‘official' WCAG 2.0 PDF Techniques specific to this subject (I just checked).
>
> What is your understanding of this point? Does WCAG 2.0 require font embedding in PDF documents, or not?

A quick note that WCAG 2.0 does not *require* any specific
technology/technique to be used. So even if there was a specific
technique that said "Embed fonts in PDFs" that would not mean that WCAG
2.0 requires it, as techniques are only informative, not normative.

In a wider sense, what success criterion do you think is related to
whether or not fonts are embedded? I.e. if fonts are not embedded, what
SC do you think is failing? If that failure can be turned into a
pass/success if fonts *are* enabled, then that is justification enough
for embedding the fonts.

P
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