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Re:Atkinson Hyperlegible Font by leephillips on Sunday September 11, 2022 @11:37AM (#32800529)
It downloads rather than opening in your browser because that’s how you’ve configured your browser. For me it opens in the browser (albeit in a new tab). There’s nothing wrong with the PDF, I can open it with all the PDF readers on my machine; it’s a basic v.1.6 PDF file. This is, in fact a “nice link to some web page text”: a page of text served over the web.
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Re:Atkinson Hyperlegible Font by teo_zero on Sunday September 11, 2022 @12:01PM (#32800756)
I think linking a PDF is less friendly to users who need Text-to-Speech technology, something the Braille Institute should be sensitive to...
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Re:Atkinson Hyperlegible Font by Tempest1981 on Sunday September 11, 2022 @12:34PM (#32801050)
What font does the PDF use?

Maybe their Atkinson font?

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Re:Atkinson Hyperlegible Font by GekkePrutser on Sunday September 11, 2022 @01:54PM (#32801711)
It does indeed :)

Kinda funny that you need to read the EULA before downloading it because once you have the PDF on your computer you have already downloaded the font.

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Re:Atkinson Hyperlegible Font by leephillips on Sunday September 11, 2022 @01:11PM (#32801361)
That’s a good point. I have no idea if Text-to-Speech works with PDF.
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Re:Atkinson Hyperlegible Font by dotancohen on Sunday September 11, 2022 @03:43PM (#32802613)
It does, and in many cases even better than on most web pages.
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