Facts and Opinions About PDF Accessibility from A List Apart 4.0

As men­tioned all around the horn tonight A List Apart is back with a new design and a great new arti­cle from Joe Clark appro­pri­ately called Facts and Opin­ions About PDF Acces­si­bil­ity.

Towards the begin­ning of the arti­cle he sets the first point of his summary:

Most PDFs on the web should be HTML

How­ever, he then lists 14 instances where PDF may well be the appro­pri­ate file for­mat. The arti­cle also goes on to debunk some pop­u­lar myths sur­round­ing PDF, explains how they can be made more acces­si­ble and an infor­ma­tive overview of how PDF files are han­dled by three pop­u­lar screen read­ers (JAWS, Window-Eyes and Home Page Reader). Also, don’t miss out on the dis­cus­sion.