The joy of the web is that you can deliver all sorts of different ‘media’ via a single interface. Tim Berners-Lee designed it with exactly that in mind.
That is good news in terms of accessibility, because it means you can offer the same content in a choice of formats, PDF being one example.
The Adobe PDF reader has many accessibility features:
- Text can now be read by a selection of screen readers.
- There is support for high contrast viewing.
- Structured markup can be added to PDF documents (just like HTML) – making it easier for those using screen readers to navigate.
Tags: PDFs, Portable Document Format
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Working with non-profits, charities, voluntary and public sector organisations and social enterprises for over 20 years. Jim set up one of the worlds first website accessibility web agencies in the mid 1990s.