PDF Rendering Extension conformance to ISO 14289-1 - paginated reports
APPLIES TO: Power BI Report Server SQL Server Reporting Services paginated reports Power BI Report Builder
This document describes paginated report PDF Rendering Extension conformance to ISO 14289-1 (PDF/UA) specifications for paginated reports in the Power BI service, Power BI Report Server, and SQL Server Reporting Services.
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Prerequisites
- For Power BI paginated reports in the Power BI service, you need a Power BI Pro license, or Premium Per User (PPU) license, and write access to a workspace in a Power BI Premium capacity.
1. Scope
Not applicable
2. Normative references
Not applicable
3. Terms and definitions
Not applicable
4. Notation
Not applicable
5. Version Identification
The PDF Rendering Extension provides support for PDF/UA as described in this document. In some instances, noted below, it's incumbent on the user to take steps to ensure that a PDF is in full compliance with PDF/UA. We expect the user will add the appropriate PDF/UA version and conformance identifiers as the last step in this process, indicating that the necessary work has been done to make the PDF entirely PDF/UA compliant.
Everything listed in this document is based on rendering a PDF document with the device info setting AccessiblePdf set to true
. In some cases, compliance limitations are due to limitations in the Report Definition Language (RDL).
6. Conformance requirements
Criteria | Supporting Feature | Remarks |
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6.1 General | Supported | PDF Rendering Extension creates PDF version 1.7. |
6.2 Conforming files | Supported with Exceptions | See remarks in section 7 – File format requirements. |
6.3 Conforming reader | Not Applicable | |
6.4 Conforming assistive technology | Not Applicable |
7. File format requirements
Criteria | Supporting Feature | Remarks |
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7.1 General | Supported with Exceptions | All real content shall be tagged as defined in ISO 32000-1:2008, 14.8. Items (ISO 32000-1:2008, 14.8.2.2.2) shall not be tagged in the structure tree. Content shall be marked in the structure tree with semantically appropriate tags in a logical reading order. Note 4 WCAG 2.0, Guideline 1.4 explains issues regarding contrast, color, and other formatting for accessibility. Standard tags defined in ISO 32000-1:2008, 14.8.4, shall not be remapped. Files claiming conformance with this International Standard shall have a Suspects value of false (ISO 32000-1:2008, Table 321). |
7.2 Text | Supported with Exceptions | Content shall be tagged in logical reading order. The most semantically appropriate tag shall be used for each logical element in the document content. Character codes shall map to Unicode as described in ISO 32000-1:2008, 14.8.2.4.2. Characters not included in the Unicode specification may use the Unicode private use area or declare another character encoding. Natural language shall be declared as discussed in ISO 32000-1:2008, 14.9.2 and/or as described in ISO 32000-1:2008, 7.9.2. Changes in natural language shall be declared. Changes in natural language inside text strings (e.g. inside alternate descriptions) shall be declared using a language identifier as described in ISO 32000-1:2008, 14.9.2.2. |
7.3 Graphics | Supported with Exceptions | Graphics objects, other than text objects, shall be tagged with a Figure tag as described in ISO 32000-1:2008, 14.8.4.5, Table 340. If any of the following exceptions are true, then the graphic shall be tagged as an artifact: A caption accompanying a figure shall be tagged with a Caption tag. Figure tags shall include an alternative representation or replacement text that represents the contents marked with the Figure tag as noted in ISO 32000-1:2008, 14.7.2, Table 323. Note 1 See also WCAG 2.0, Guideline 1.1. If text represented in a graphic is not text in a natural language that's meant to be read by a human reader, alternative text describing the nature or purpose of the graphic shall be provided. Note 2 Text that's a type sample or a sample of the writing system used by a language are examples of text that isn't in a natural language. PDF Rendering Extension supports alt text on figures, though it's up to the user to add the alt text. Additional note regarding the BBox attribute: |
7.4 Headings | Not Applicable | RDL doesn't support mark up of headings in any way. It's up to the user to tag them as appropriate. |
7.5 Tables | Supported with Exceptions | Tables should include headers. Table headers shall be tagged according to ISO 32000-1:2008, Table 337 and Table 349. Note 1 Tables can contain column headers, row headers or both. Note 2 As much information as possible about the structure of tables needs to be available when assistive technology is relied upon. Headers play a key role in providing structural information. Structure elements of type TH shall have a Scope attribute. Table tagging structures shall only be used to tag content presented within logical row and/or column relationships. |
7.6 Lists | Not Applicable | RDL does not support mark up of lists. In RDL, they are structurally a table with a single table cell. It's up to the user to retag them as appropriate. |
7.7 Mathematical expressions | Supported with Exceptions | All mathematical expressions shall be enclosed within a Formula tag as detailed in ISO 32000-1:2008, 14.8.4.5 and shall have an Alt attribute. The requirements regarding mapping of characters to Unicode shall apply to mathematical expressions as set forth in ISO 32000-1:2008, 9.10.2 and 14.8.2.4. |
7.8 Page headers and footers | Supported | Running headers and footers shall be identified as Pagination artifacts and shall be classified as either Header or Footer subtypes as per ISO 32000-1:2008, 14.8.2.2.2, Table 330. |
7.9 Notes and references | Not Applicable | PDF Rendering Extension doesn't support mark up of notes and references. It's up to the user to tag them as appropriate. |
7.10 Optional content | Not Applicable | |
7.11 Embedded files | Not Applicable | |
7.12 Article threads | Not Applicable | |
7.13 Digital signatures | Not Applicable | |
7.14 Non-interactive forms | Not Applicable | |
7.15 XFA | Not Applicable | |
7.16 Security | Not Applicable | |
7.17 Navigation | Supported | A document should include a document outline that matches the reading order and level of navigational targets (ISO 32000-1:2008, 12.3.3). If present, the entries in the PageLabels number tree (ISO 32000-1:2008, 7.7.2, Table 28) should be semantically appropriate. |
7.18 Annotations | Not Applicable | RDL doesn't support annotations |
7.21 Fonts | Supported | |
7.21.1 General | Supported | |
7.21.2 Font types | Supported | |
7.21.3 Composite fonts | Supported | |
7.21.3.1 General | Supported | |
7.21 3.2 CIDFonts | Supported | |
7.21.3.3 CMaps | Supported | |
7.21.4 Embedding | Supported | |
7.21.4.1 General | Supported | |
7.21.4.2 Subset embedding | Supported | |
7.21.5 Font metrics | Supported | |
7.21.6 Character encodings | Supported | |
7.21.7 Unicode character maps | Supported | |
7.21.8 Use of .notdef glyph | Supported |
8. Conforming reader requirements
Not applicable
9. AT requirements
Not applicable
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