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

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Apr 15, 2015 6:44AM

> What is your understanding of this point? Does WCAG 2.0 require font embedding in PDF documents, or not?

It really depends on if when the font is not embedded a success criteria is not met. If you can show a case such as a failure of SC 1.4.4 Text Resize when fonts aren't embedded then I think there is a good case for it. Otherwise it would be difficult to argue unless there is some other SC such as 1.3.1 which might apply to font attributes not being available such as underline, bold, etc. as there are few semantic tag equivalents to this communicate this information.

Jonathan

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Duff Johnson
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Subject: [WebAIM] Do fonts have to be embedded in a WCAG 2.0 conforming PDF document?

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?

Thanks,

Duff.