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[Irl-dean] WCAG+Samurai and PDFs

Eoin Campbell ecampbell at xmlw.ie
Thu May 1 13:34:01 IST 2008


I believe the reasoning is that all content delivered via the website should
be accessible, whether HTML or PDF or anything else.
This makes sense to me, especially for PDFs, since navigation
bookmarks for long documents are really useful.

Dónal Rice wrote:
> The Samurai permits the use of PDFs, as long as they are tagged and a 
> HTML version is provided by default.[1]   This is a sensible approach, 
> although I think the requirement that the PDF must be tagged, 
> even though a HTML version is provided seems a little "belt and braces".  


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