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Re: Batch conversion from word to accessible PDF?

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Jun 21, 2010 11:39AM

You don't see "Microsoft Office Word" as an option?

What version of Acrobat are you using?

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AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Batch conversion from word to accessible PDF?

Michael wrote:

> In acrobat pro the path is File > Create PDF > Batch Create Multiple files. From there you will enter a Wizard that will allow you to select the files.

Is this wizard supposed to allow word docs? If so, then it's no
longer a question for this list, but one for Adobe support. :)
We don't see Word as an option in there, and it won't let us
select docs.

> You will need to make sure that the word documents were created correctly (structure, tables, images) or you still won't have accessible PDFs. You may also need to do some additional work to the tables and add language attributes to all of the resulting documents.

Sadly we have no control over that; these are student and faculty
scholarship, and are probably mostly poorly created. But we can
make a best effort.

-deborah