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

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Mar 9, 2014 9:20PM

Hi Birkir,

I don't know the state of accessibility for PDFs on OSX, but it was pretty
bad.

In Word 2007 and higher for Windows, when you change the file type to PDF,
an options button appears. If this is the same for OSX, in the options
window, you want to check the document properties and document structure
tags for accessibility options. The Windows version of the structure tags
is not great, but usually gets a foot in the door.

I recommend trying to upgrade a version or two of Acrobat, if possible.

--
Ryan E. Benson


On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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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