Re: Techniques do not apply

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:41 PM, <noreply@w3.org> wrote:

> Name: Duff Johnson
> Email: djohnson@commonlook.com
> Affiliation: NetCentric Technologies
> Document: W2
> Item Number: Success Criterion 2.4.8
> Part of Item:
> Comment Type: technical
> Summary of Issue: Techniques do not apply
> Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change):
> A PDF page is not the same as a web-page per the WCAG definition of web
> page (as referenced in the SC itself).
>
> The analogy (if any) is to the PDF *document*. Accordingly, PDF14 and
> PDF17 do not apply to this SC.
>
> Proposed Change:
> Remove PDF14 and PDF17.
>
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Response from the Working Group
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Since the entire PDF document has a single URL, you are correct that the
Success Criteria 2.4.8 is not met by these techniques. One of the other,
general sufficient techniques would be used if the PDF document is one of a
larger set of web pages. Since providing location information within a long
PDF document will still be useful to people, we have retained them as
advisory techniques

Loretta Guarino Reid, WCAG WG Co-Chair
Gregg Vanderheiden, WCAG WG Co-Chair
Michael Cooper, WCAG WG Staff Contact


On behalf of the WCAG Working Group