[Athen] [EXTERNAL] Re: Weird PDF printing problem

[Steve Green]

That is weird because the Print > Save as PDF option in Chrome creates tagged PDFs on every machine I have ever worked on, and we have dozens of machines.

Steve

From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Alexis Delevett
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Thank you Steve,

The Print > Save as PDF option in Chrome does not create tagged PDFs for me, so if anyone has additional insight that would be helpful.

Because of this experience I've recommended, for users who have access to Acrobat DC, to print a website to PDF from within Adobe by visiting File > Create > PDF from Web Page, which does have a settings dialog to ensure the PDF created is tagged.
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Athen] Weird PDF printing problem


If you are using Chrome, the Print dialog contains a Destination combobox that provides two options that create PDFs. The "Microsoft Print to PDF" option creates an inaccessible image-only PDF as you described. The "Save as PDF" option creates a tagged PDF that screen readers can read. You should always use the "Saved as PDF" option.



Steve Green

Managing Director

Test Partners Ltd





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Subject: [Athen] Weird PDF printing problem



I have a work computer and a computer at home which also belongs to my employer, a college of course.



Both theoretically were set up with the same "image" the same version of Acrobat, Microsoft office etc.



And both run Windows 10 enterprise and I keep them both updated.



But when I print (actually save) a web page as a PDF, the home computer creates an inaccessible image-only PDF.



The office computer creates an accessible PDF. It's not perfect, but all the text is readable with a screen reader or other tool that can voice PDFS.



I would appreciate if someone could explain what's going on. How many different ways can a person "print to PDF" and which methods should one avoid if sending a web page "printout" to someone who must read it with a screen reader?



I myself am a screen reader user, but luckily I've only had to share these printouts with people who look at the PDF visually. But I still need to know what's going on.



--Debee


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