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The High­ways Agency web­site includes PDF (portable doc­u­ment for­mat) doc­u­ments. We are going through the process of mak­ing our PDFs more acces­si­ble for peo­ple who use screen read­ers. You can get the Adobe Acro­bat Reader for free by down­load­ing Acro­bat Reader.

View­ers with visual dif­fi­cul­ties may also find it use­ful to inves­ti­gate ser­vices pro­vided to improve the acces­si­bil­ity of Acro­bat doc­u­ments. More on Adobe Acro­bat and accessibility.

Word

For Win­dows users who don’t have Microsoft Word, the Word 97/2000 Viewer (Win­dows 95/98/NT) allows them to view MS Word files. Down­load Word Viewer 2003

Excel

For Win­dows users who don’t have Microsoft Excel, the Excel 97/2000 Viewer allows them to view Excel files.
Down­load Excel Viewer 2003

Pow­er­Point

For Win­dows users who don’t have Microsoft Pow­er­Point, the Power Point Viewer 97 allows them to view Pow­er­Point files.
Down­load Pow­er­Point Viewer 2003

CSV (Comma Sep­a­rated Values)

A CSV file is the sim­plest way in which tab­u­lar data can be saved for import­ing into spread­sheet appli­ca­tions such as Excel or data­base appli­ca­tions such as Access. No spe­cial reader is required for this format.

RTF (Rich Text Format)

A RTF file is a for­mat that lets you exchange text files between dif­fer­ent word proces­sors in dif­fer­ent oper­at­ing sys­tems, for example,a doc­u­ment cre­ated in Word 97 on Win­dows 95, saved as an RTF file, can be opened using Word­Per­fect 6.0 on Windows.