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Your menu posted as an image or a PDF

A screen reader reads a picture of your menu as nothing. Why the most common way to post a menu is also the most common way to make it unreadable.

The choice you’re proud of

The menu posted as an image or a PDF

What it actually is

A picture of your menu, not real text.

Who it shuts out

A screen reader reads a picture as nothing — a blind guest hits silence where your entire menu should be. Low-vision guests can't enlarge it without it turning to mush, and nobody can search it, select it, or have their phone read it aloud. The menu is the one thing every single guest came for, and a picture of it is the most common way that thing ends up unreadable.

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