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Re: Can Word and Adobe Acrobat on a Mac makeaccessible/tagged PDF files?

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Mar 10, 2014 4:21AM

In both the Windows and Mac versions of Microsoft Office, in the Options
dialog for PDF conversion make sure you check the check box to create
Bookmarks and then the radio button to create them from Headings.

Cheers, Karen

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

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

That would be an under-statement.

On OSX, the mere act of saving a previously-tagged PDF in Preview (the OS's
default viewer) with no modifications causes tags to be dumped. It won't
even say "sorry".

For shame!

> 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.

Open Office makes tagged PDF on the Mac as well.

Duff.
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