Check out Part One: Accessibility of PDFs and other downloadable documents Why PDFs are not always a suitable solution There are many reasons, especially with the advent of social media, why PDFs are not a suitable solution for releasing content. It is important, as an organisation, to support your end users by providing them content
The history of the accessibility of PDF (in Australia) In the late 2000s, the Australian Government conducted an enquiry into the accessibility of PDFs by: Requesting public comment Testing PDFs with blind and low vision users Testing PDFs against WCAG2 Talking to assistive technology manufactures Talking to Adobe At that point, PDFs were defined as
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