Other Examples

You’d Have to Be an Acrobat: Bus Schedules in New York City

New York City bus schedules are equally if not more problematic than the ones for Capital Metro. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority posts its bus schedules in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF), as in the screen shot shown in Figure 5-8.

Figure 5-8. Screen shot displaying part of the Long Island Rail Road page for Babylon Village. The page shows part of a table listing times for selected stops on the route from Babylon Village to Penn Station in Manhattan. Accessed June 9, 2001, at http://www.babylonvillage.com/long_island_railroad/. Used with permission.

It’s hard to believe that this schedule is any more accessible to people who can see it than ...

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