RE: Does a downloadable PDF report on a website fall under the legal requirements for ADA?

Normative definition of a web page:
"a non-embedded resource obtained from a single URI using HTTP plus any other resources that are used in the rendering or intended to be rendered together with it by a user agent"
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#dfn-web-page-s

I'd suggest that a PDF or any other file format for that matter would be a 'resource' and therefore part of a web page and subject to the same requirements.



-----Original Message-----
From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk> 
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2023 7:38 AM
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: Does a downloadable PDF report on a website fall under the legal requirements for ADA?

On 23/02/2023 03:28, Tyler Petty wrote:
> I could not find anything on W3 that claims a pdf could be seen as an 
> extension of a website and therefore needs to be compliant

I think you have a misunderstanding about what the web is.  It is not just HTML, but all the resources that are available through it; leaf nodes are just as much part of the web as more interconnected ones, not that PDF is restricted to leaf nodes.

In my experience, PDF documents often contain the real information on a site. and it is information that you want to make accessible.

Received on Friday, 24 February 2023 01:05:37 UTC