MPE — one document, three renderings

Same data. A label at true physical size, a fax page as the machine prints it, and the same fax written for a screen reader.

1 · 4×6 label, true size

This is 4 inches by 6 inches, actually — CSS inches are physical units. Hold a real label up to your screen and it matches. Scroll sideways if it overflows; that is the label being wider than your phone, not a layout bug.

2 · The fax page

Why two versions. The printed page is monospace art — rules made of equals signs, columns made of spaces. A screen reader announces every one of those as punctuation. So the printed page is marked decorative, and the version below carries the same facts as real headings and labelled fields. VoiceOver reads it as a document, not as noise.

3 · Why this matters

The label, the printed fax and the spoken fax come from the same source. MPE renders it to exact physical geometry for a machine, and to semantic structure for a person listening. Neither is a downgrade of the other.