Are PDFs an accessible solution?

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PDFs are everywhere on the web, and with the advent of the PDF Techniques for the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Version 2.0, the general public could be led to believe that PDF is an accessible technology. But is it an appropriate accessible solution for content? In a study conducted by Consumer Affairs Victoria, overwhelmingly people chose web pages to view their content, instead of PDFs. When given a choice, 99.6% of users choose a web page instead of a PDF to view information.

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Wild, G., & Craddock, D. (2016). Are PDFs an accessible solution? In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 9758, pp. 355–358). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41264-1_48

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