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From: Hull, Larry G. (GSFC-750.0)[GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER]
Date: Mar 24, 2010 1:39PM


Last time I checked, remediation could only be done using Adobe Acrobat Pro. However, it should be possible to correct the source document(s) and use Adobe Acrobat Standard to generate an PDF with alternate text for the graphics.

It has been several years since I've been involved in creating PDF documents so someone with more recent experience may want to correct me here if things have changed.

Larry

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Carin Headrick
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 2:29 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] alt tags in PDF's

She says she's using Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard and doing a repair on an existing document.

Carin
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From: Carin Headrick
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] alt tags in PDF's


It's a staff from the city. I think she's using acrobat but I'll have to check to confirm.

Carin
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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
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Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] alt tags in PDF's


Are you making the pdf yourself (if so, how) or are you just doing repair? If the latter, what tools do you have?
Awk
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Senior Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems
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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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Sent: Wed Mar 24 07:53:00 2010
Subject: [WebAIM] alt tags in PDF's

Hi. Someone wants to alt tag graphics in a PDF, and they tried a couple of different ways, and all I got were numbers on the graphics. What is the proper way to tag a PDF?

Thanks.

Carin