{"id":22141,"date":"2018-07-17T14:26:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T18:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22141"},"modified":"2018-07-17T14:26:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T18:26:01","slug":"why-content-should-be-published-in-html-and-not-pdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/17\/why-content-should-be-published-in-html-and-not-pdf\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Content Should Be Published in HTML and Not PDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gds.blog.gov.uk\/2018\/07\/16\/why-gov-uk-content-should-be-published-in-html-and-not-pdf\/\">Neil Williams<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dugboticus\/status\/1018847222224564224\">Alistair Duggin<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/gds.blog.gov.uk\/2018\/07\/16\/why-gov-uk-content-should-be-published-in-html-and-not-pdf\/\"><p>The default should be to create all content in HTML. If you can&rsquo;t avoid publishing a PDF, ideally it should be in addition to an HTML version and the PDF must meet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/how-to-publish-on-gov-uk\/accessible-pdfs\">accessibility standards<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/content-design\/planning-content#viewing\">archiving standards<\/a>. We hope this post will help publishers explain the problems with PDFs to their colleagues and support moving towards an HTML-first culture.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>PDFs may seem to be the fastest option because they can be easily created from popular applications that people are already using to author and share documents.<\/p>\n<p>Converting content into HTML takes a bit of time. However, as explained earlier, creating a fully usable and accessible PDF from a source document requires specialist knowledge and can actually take longer than creating the content in HTML.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, there is no standard way to download an HTML document and save it in a self-contained format. Also, the tools for reading, searching, and marking up PDF documents are better.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Williams (via Alistair Duggin): The default should be to create all content in HTML. If you can&rsquo;t avoid publishing a PDF, ideally it should be in addition to an HTML version and the PDF must meet accessibility standards and archiving standards. We hope this post will help publishers explain the problems with PDFs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-07-17T18:26:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"c3da464b-8123-40e4-85f5-274b4654df97","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-07-17T18:26:03Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aw9pGS4EjQOSF9SdLRlTflw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[930,339,345,96],"class_list":["post-22141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-accessibility","tag-html","tag-pdf","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22142,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22141\/revisions\/22142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}