#35855: Add a disclaimer about PDF accessibility issues in docs
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Reporter: Thibaud Colas | Owner: (none)
Type: | Status: closed
Cleanup/optimization |
Component: Documentation | Version: dev
Severity: Normal | Resolution: wontfix
Keywords: accessibility, | Triage Stage:
djangonaut space, pdf | Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Changes (by Sarah Boyce):
* resolution: => wontfix
* status: new => closed
Comment:
> I’m baffled to read their tagged PDF support is only available for paid
users, not sure what to make of that information. Without tags, there’s no
way a PDF with any kind of formatting in it would be considered good
enough for an organization that has to follow accessibility standards.
I agree this is concerning, perhaps we should recommend
[https://doc.courtbouillon.org/weasyprint/stable/ WeasyPrint]. This looks
like you format it in html and you opt to convert it to a pdf (with tags)
It looks like this How-to guide was added in 2005 - do we think this guide
needed at all? It uses a [https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/ref
/request-response/#fileresponse-objects FileResponse] maybe these docs are
already enough?
Perhaps this how-to, which relies on an external package (possibly
commercialized in the past 20 years), doesn't belong in the docs.
These are the options I see:
1. Remove this How-to
2. Move away from ReportLab
3. Add a warning to the docs
4. Do nothing
To decide a route forward, can you start a discussion on the
[https://forum.djangoproject.com/c/internals/5 forum] and get more input
from other folks? If there's a consensus for any of the options 1-3 please
come back here, link the discussion and reopen the ticket
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