PDF Accessibility on the Web: Tricks and Traps – Part 1 – TPGi
November 4, 2024
Let me start by making two simple statements. It would be a very good thing if all PDF documents on the web were converted to HTML. That’s not going to happen. I want to be clear that I’m not here to pile on PDFs. That’s not going to help. My view is that PDFs are currently, and widely, used as web content and therefore must be accessible. To do that, the first thing is to get some perspective. PDF was not invented for the presentation of web content.
Source: PDF Accessibility on the Web: Tricks and Traps – Part 1 – TPGi
PDFs are a reality on the Web, as much as we might wish that all Web content were HTML. And as such, we need to be concerned with their accessibility. Part I of a two part series on making them so.
