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PDF was originally designed for printers, wasn't it? So making it accessible to screen readers is tricky.
by TRiG_Ireland 2y ago
PDF was originally designed for printers, wasn't it? So making it accessible to screen readers is tricky.
- pwg 2y agoNot "for printers" per se. What it was designed for was to accurately represent a printed page in electronic form. So the innards of a PDF look more like "instructions" for a virtual printer telling it where to position "font glyphs" on a "virtual sheet of paper". It's use as an almost universal "printer format" for applying toner/ink to paper came much later.