
Printable layouts and accessibility
Arguments against my whole post You shouldn't be printing anything anyway, it's bad for the environment! Yes. Fine. Noted. That's what PDFs are for! No, it's really not, and if you have a site somewhere with a button labelled "print" which exports something as a PDF then we probably have bigger problems. Nobody prints web pages, what are you worried about? Uh-huh. People print web pages. Some people will print off a copy of your CV, a receipt for a product, the confirmation page for a booking, some quick troubleshooting tips for their washing machine, a recipe... My partner has reduced vision and uses larger-than-usual text sizes on screen, and often prints articles out to read them at her leisure in a more comfortable way. Paper is still easier for a lot of people to read than a backlit screen. It's the big reason kindles are so popular. Let's have a nice clear button that says "print" No, let's not. Browsers have that built in. You wouldn't reinvent the wheel, would you? You wouldn't
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