Priority 1 accessibility issue: PDF documents did not have a title.

[alicerichmond]

What The PDF document is not titled. This means screen reader users are not presented with the document purpose and must rely on the filename, which is ambiguous.

WCAG Reference: 2.4.2 Page Titled (Level A) Understanding Page Titled | How to Meet Page Titled

Low vision comments: “When I wanted to read through the PDF document, I noticed that the title of the PDF is not visible, this means that users like myself won’t be able to clearly identify what page we’re on nor will we be able to identify what the title of the PDF document is which may stop viewers to continue reading.”

Solution: Ensure that all documents have a descriptive title that describes context of the document. For more information, please visit Techniques for WCAG 2.1 PDF18: Specifying the document title using the Title entry in the document information dictionary of a PDF document.

Where

[dannybirchall]

I suspect that this is not the only case, and that all our PDFs could be audited.

... and also that we might check for other aspects of accessibility

Prismic's image library won't allow us to filter/identify PDFs

Is there any quick way of identifying a list of PDFs on the site and/or checking which elements are missing?

[gestchild]

@dannybirchall I don't think there is an easy way to list all the PDFs in the Prismic media library, so I loaded all the docs in the browser then scraped the html (this was done @ 14:40ish 01/07/2021). There were 62 pdfs listed in total:

Wellcome Collection Venue Hire Terms and Conditions.pdf Wellcome Collection Access Procedures Aug 2020.pdf access-to-personal-data.pdf libraryapplication.pdf Perspectives_on_play_learning_pack.pdf access-to-personal-data.pdf Ts and Cs - September 2020.pdf RawMinds changing our planet.pdf WellcomeCollection_RawMinds_BeingUs.pdf Wellcome Collection_Access Policy_Aug 2020.pdf Facilitator brief – Ideas Hub at Wellcome Collection.pdf Publishing Development Initiative.pdf Publishing Writers Development Brief.pdf Terms and Conditions 2020.pdf WC Digitisation Strategy 2020-2025.pdf Wellcome Collection Menu 2020.pdf Wellcome_K_Children_Menu_A5_Oct_19.pdf Wellcome_K_Menu_folded_296x250mm_Oct_19_v2.pdf 2019-10-18-glam-cam-digipres-slides.pdf Forward Plan 19.pdf Digital Preservation Policy.pdf WC Venue Hire Autumn Winter 2019 Menu.pdf List of human remains in Sir Henry Wellcomes Museum Collection.pdf Wellcome_Menu_148x250mm_4pp_folded_April_19_web_2.pdf Event Spaces Menu Spring 2019.pdf Event Spaces Menu Spring 2019.pdf Wellcome Collection Research Development Strategy.pdf Wellcome_Afternoon_Tea_Oct2018_A5_4pp.pdf Wellcome Kitchen Christmas menu 2018.pdf WellcomeFood&_drinks_Oct2018_4pp_148x250mm (3).pdf Wellcome_TeethFood&_drinks_May2018_A5.pdf Wellcome Collection Event Spaces Food and Drink Menu.pdf Med Now Res_FULL.pdf Med Man Res_FULL.pdf Med Now Res_POST16 final.pdf Med Now Res_KS4 final.pdf Med Now Res_TRAIL.pdf Med Now Res_INTRO.pdf Med Now Res_LINKS.pdf Med Man Res_TRAIL2.pdf Med Man Res_TRAIL1.pdf Med Man Res_TRAIL3.pdf Med Man Res_INTRO.pdf Med Man Res_LINKS.pdf Wellcome_Drinks_March2018_A5_2pp.pdf Wellcome_Afternoon_Tea_Mar2018_A5web.pdf 2018-08-15 Wellcome Collection Access Diversity Inclusion Strategy .pdf Wellcome Collection Event Spaces_online brochure.pdf Wellcome_TeethFood&_drinks_May2018_A5_4pp.pdf Wellcome Collection Who we are and what we do_2.pdf Wellcome Collection_Collections Development Policy_March 2018.pdf Wellcome Collection_Collections Information Policy_March 2018.pdf Wellcome Collection_Conservation and Collections Care Policy_March 2018.pdf Wellcome Collection_Forward Plan_2018-23.pdf School events brochure Jan-July 2018 (967KB).pdf Wellcome Collection Venue Hire Terms & Conditions (114 KB).pdf Event Spaces Menu April 2018.pdf MP-6761.23_A-Man_Large_Print_Guide_Exhibit_Texts_reproduction_web.pdf MP-6761.23_A-Man_Large_Print_Guide_Exhibit_Texts_AW.pdf MP-6761.23_A-Man_Large_Print_Guide_Correspondence_AW.pdf CGDSYL-LargePrintGuide.pdf bedlam_large_text_guide.pdf

[dannybirchall]

Thanks @gestchild !

[pollecuttn]

https://wellcome.slack.com/archives/C3N7J05TK/p1625656260067200

"Danny has clarified (with Youth Programmes I think) what is required to make an accessible PDF and they are now going to be supplied properly formatted so they are accessible. I think this was linked with work going on more broadly in the Trust / Collection... maybe this: https://trustnet.wellcome.org/news/brief-guide-publishing-accessible-documents"

"I think the Y[outh] P[rogrammes] PDFs are adding new content"

To be followed up by @dannybirchall 's team

[jennpb]

@dannybirchall @pollecuttn Can I check the progress on this, and any decisions made over the past year?

[dannybirchall]

@jennpb we haven't had the resources to do a full audit, but we're doing basic accessibility checks on new PDFs