Why not just make *all* the docs accessible?

[kestrell]

Re: that faux pas of receiving an acceptance letter to a disability-related group, sent in an inaccessible PDF format: I received an apology from both the team leader and the IT person, assuring me that usually an accessible Word doc is also included along with the PDF, but somehow it failed in my case.

I really wanted to ask why they didn't just make all the PDF docs accessible, but didn't want to sound antagonistic.

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Sorry, I forgot to include my rant

[jesse_the_k]

As my vision gets worse, I'm getting crankier and crankier about PDF. A truly accessible PDF is great for screen-reader users, but for my not quite-low-visionista eyes, it's nauseating to scroll back and forth for each fucking line.

I don't understand why, since most sighted people create fuckin' hideous documents, they seem to care so much about their own font size/style/coloring.

I want ?style=mine for the universe.

rant ends.