You could design HTML website in the same way, to be printable (although getting pixel perfect A4 format is tricky with HTML) Meanwhile, PDFs internally can be

You could design HTML website in the same way, to be printable (although getting pixel perfect A4 format is tricky with HTML) Meanwhile, PDFs internally can be as accessible as JPEG in some cases; difficult for screen readers because it's optimized for screen display and printing. Sometimes PDF are not even searchable, you literally have vector glyphs and not "letters" inside. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-for-government/viewing-government-documents https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-fo... Although PDFs are of course nice if you want to download it and save somewhere as a user because it's guaranteed to work and 1 file has everything. Downloaded HTML might have all kind of weird issues if it was constructed with fancy "modern" techniques. Again, proper server-rendered plain HTML+CSS for the win, perhaps with everything inlined if form is expected to be saved on disk.