Because MS Office is so widely used, particularly in business, many assistive technologies are actually very adept at working with .doc files (they have to be, if they hope to have any chance of being purchased for use in the workplace). Then, when you factor in the way in which Word and PDF documents are most commonly created, you do end up with a situation where a Word doc is more likely to be accessible to those using some form of assistive technology than a PDF document.
- Donna
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