Of course you have already been surfing on the Internet. Therefore you use a browser and there is about 95% chance you use Microsoft Internet Explorer.

All browsers can read pages written in HTML. HTML is an open standard and basically it is just plain text that has been enriched with human readable “tags” that explain how to format the text. With time and because of the success of the Internet, HTML has become more powerful and widespread. For example, instead of dull plain text, you can sometimes read pretty messages that look like advertisements, that’s just because your e-mail also understands and talks HTML.

HTML is now a worldwide standard and HTML pages are the most common way of communicating through the Internet with the visitors of your site. You can be sure that they can read it, because browsers are now installed on every computer. If this is still not the case, there will be no additional cost to them in order to do so. The only thing they need to browse and print those documents is a browser that can be distributed free (on the Internet or CD).