Post #3849452

2026-07-15 10:10 UTC

A few days ago, I enabled tagged PDF generation in #Firefox Nightly! So, whenever you create a PDF from a web page using the Save to PDF option in the Firefox Print dialog, it will now be (mostly) accessible with assistive technology, assuming the original page was accessible of course. I say "mostly" accessible because this isn't perfect yet, but it's a massive step forward from producing completely inaccessible PDF documents. It also generates a document outline (table of contents) from the headings in the document. This is very new code, so it's only enabled in Nightly for now and we'll probably let it bake in Nightly for a few weeks at least before we consider shipping it to release. #accessibility

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@sbourne@mastodon.social 2026-07-15 10:50

@jcsteh@aus.social This is very exciting!

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@miki@dragonscave.space 2026-07-15 11:02

@jcsteh@aus.social Hey, I just wanted to say that I appreciate what you guys are doing re: PDF support. Pdf.js is one of the better viewers out there when tagging support is concerned. I still have my issues with it, I should get these reported eventually, but it's already much better than most of the other crap out there.

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@michanical@mastodon.social 2026-07-15 12:59

@jcsteh@aus.social Bravo! As someone working in Higher Ed (and supporting faculty with accessibility compliance), this is going to be a helpful resource to include in our toolkit. Thanks for making this a priority!

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@bondolo@mastodon.social 2026-07-15 15:37

@jcsteh@aus.social Fantastic news and long overdue. Churlish of me to ask but why wasn't it there from the start? Why build a print-to-PDF feature that throws out the HTML semantic structure?

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@Jage@mas.to 2026-07-15 16:42

@jcsteh@aus.social Will there be a way to enable the experimental feature under preferences?

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