GOV.UK exists to make government services and information as easy as possible to find and use.
For that reason, we’re not huge fans of PDFs on GOV.UK.
Compared with HTML content, information published in a PDF is harder to find, use and maintain. More importantly, unless created with sufficient care PDFs can often be bad for accessibility and rarely comply with open standards.
Many departments are doing great work to move away from them. For example, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) blogged about how it created and published its strategy in HTML and Public Health England has written about its work to move away from PDFs.
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Curated by (Lifekludger)
Read full article at Source: Why GOV.UK content should be published in HTML and not PDF – Government Digital Service
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