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by wlesieutre 2291 days ago
Small for you, a person who hangs out on HN.

Even with a service like Squarespace, asking a restaurant owner to create a well-formatted digital version of the menu and keep it up to date with any revisions is a big enough ask that they can't be assed.

Having visually impaired friends who aren't well served by a PDF that doesn't respect their text size preferences and requires zooming way in and scrolling side to side to read each line, I wish that weren't the case. But that's where we're at.

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Then it sounds like there's a missed opportunity for some clever person to develop a better system for these customers to use.
My guess is the problem is more that there are too many such systems in use. So unifying the process to make a paper and web change requires updating a thousand different solutions.