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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Mar 9, 2014 8:48PM

Greetings gang.
Hope to see many of you in San Diego next week, I am excited.
I am trying to help debug a PDF file remotely, it is untagged and has
no accessibility structure.
It is generated using Word on OSX.
The person also has access to ADobe Acrobat, but also on OSX.
The precise versions:

Word Mac 2008, version 12.1.0
The AAP: Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional Version 8.0.0

It seems like Word for Mac does not export tagged PDF files when saved
as PDF in the Word document, at least not by default.
I know support for tagging is usually much more spottyon OSX, but I do
not know to what extent that applies to Office or Adobe products run
on that platform.
If anyone knows, or can point me to a resource on this, it would be
much apreciated.
Thanks



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