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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 9:23PM

Birkir wrote:
" I do not know to what extent that applies to Office or Adobe products run
on that platform. "

By the way, exporting accessible PDFs from Adobe's products on the Mac is
just fine.

But with MS Office/Mac, there isn't an Acrobat plug-in to make the PDFs from
Office. Apple does have its Acrobat-Reader-Knock-Off called Preview, but it
can't make either accessible PDFs nor press-quality PDFs.

This is one case where Windows does a better job.

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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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