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Re: Can Word and Adobe ACrobat on a Mac make accessible/taggedPDF files?

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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Mar 9, 2014 9:19PM

At this time (and for the foreseeable future, as I understand it) you can't
make a PDF from Word/Mac. I've been told that it's a problem with Apple's
OS, not Adobe and Microsoft.

We haven't yet upgraded to Mavericks (Mac's latest OS) so I don't know if
the problem was resolved with the new Apple OS.

Our office's solution is to open the Word document in Word/Windows, export
to accessible PDF, and complete the accessibility on the Windows side.

-Bevi Chagnon
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Subject: [WebAIM] Can Word and Adobe ACrobat on a Mac make accessible/tagged
PDF files?

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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