Re: PDF accessibility guidelines. WAS: Re: PDF's and Signatures from David Woolley on 2015-01-26 (w3c-wai-ig@w3.org from January to March 2015)

From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:21:01 +0000
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Message-ID: <54C65B5D.4070008@david-woolley.me.uk>

On 26/01/15 14:03, Duff Johnson wrote:
> If PDF really was that bad… why would it be so popular? Why would it still be gaining in popularity?

The most attractive feature of PDF, to businesses, has always been that 
it reproduces the print layout accurately on screen.  That is considered 
very desirable, even if it conflicts with accessibility.

The other attractive feature is that it provides strong copy protection 
than web technologies, with often rely on scripting to make copying 
difficult for unskilled users.

Received on Monday, 26 January 2015 15:21:10 UTC