From a selfish #accessibility viewpoint, things I would like to stop existing:
Discord.
PDFs.
statista.com
Powerpoint/Impress.
What are your "my life would be better if abled users didn't inexplicably choose X" preferences?
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@modulux I have my suspicions as to what the answer is going to be (from what I know about the format), but what problem(s) do PDFs specifically cause for you?
@joepie91 Lots, but the major ones: recovery of spacing is unreliable (often words appear to be together, or with random spacing in between letters), formatting is not semantic so no navigation by headings and such, mathematical content is unrecoverable as text, footnotes are not easily navigable.
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@modulux Yep, that's pretty much the kind of issue I suspected, though in more detail than I knew of - thanks!
This is probably caused by PDFs being more vector images (with exact letter positioning) than text documents... which is unfortunately also exactly why people love using them, because they automatically match pixel-perfectly whatever the generating app would display natively :(
I've been thinking off-and-on for a while about how the format could be improved to fix these issues, but so far I've not gotten any further than "include a semantic and a visual version separately"...
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@joepie91 @modulux Honestly, the easiest way is just to convert things to HTML documents rather than PDF documents. I cannot express how much I detest PDF anything. If it’s a book or lengthy document, I instantly convert it to HTML. If It’s just a short document something, I’m OK with keeping it as a plane text file or Microsoft word file, but that explanation you gave above explains so much why PDFs are a massive headache. Even tagged PDFs sometimes have these issues.
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@joepie91 @modulux PDF is a useful format for sheet music (exported from #MuseScore)