Summary
Creating learning resources as accessible PDFs in this way can have a number of benefits for you and your students including:
- The format is independent of the software, hardware or operating system and is therefore highly accessible.
- The file size tends to be smaller in comparison with other formats.
- Inbuilt features provide effective navigation within the document.
- Inbuilt features provide a range of accessibility features, including compatibility with screen readers and colour adjusters.
- Non-text elements, including hyperlinks and images, are integrated easily.
- Files are easily updated by editing the original document in Microsoft Word then reproducing as a PDF.
The navigation functionality within a pdf reader
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