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From: Steve Green
Date: Oct 31, 2020 6:06AM

Actually, WCAG is entirely relevant to this discussion. European law requires that all public sector websites meet WCAG 2.1 AA including all documents that can be downloaded from the website. The legislation does not mention PDF/UA.

The legislation started life as the EU Accessibility Directive - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2016/2102/oj. EU Directives do not apply directly, but they require EU member countries to transcribe the directive into their own law. The UK did this via The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/952/made.

This law is driving the vast majority of PDF remediation work in the UK at the moment and is likely to do so as long as public sector organisations keep producing PDFs.

Steve