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Re: Accessible "save as PDF" plug ins for Word on OSX

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Jan 7, 2011 11:00AM

In Office for Mac 2011 Outlook replaces Entourage and Microsoft has made
progress in making it accessible with VoiceOver. However I find that I had
to use the mouse to hover over e-mail content and the list of messages in
order for VoiceOver to read them and it will not read them
consistently...one time it reads the text and the next time it doesn't.
Office 2011 for Mac now has the Ribbons for Office applications however
Word, Excel or PowerPoint are still not accessible with VoiceOver.

So some progress for those of us using VoiceOver but not enough to make it a
functional alternative to a Windows version of Office.

I haven't tried saving a document as a tagged PDF document to see if that is
possible.

Cheers, Karen