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

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From: Jonathan Metz
Date: Mar 10, 2014 7:12AM

On 3/10/14, 6:18 AM, "Olaf Drümmer" wrote:


>
>- the only good news here is: even if an author creates a Microsoft Word
>file on Mac, not at all is lost - just launch Microsoft Word on a Windows
>operating system, and save to PDF from there.

I would add that the original would still need to have had styles applied
to it in order for the tags to be generated appropriately. If the original
author kept everything as ŒNormal¹ (i.e. The Style dialog box was never
opened), it won¹t be much more accessible.

It¹s also better to use Word¹s built-in editors in order to create an
accessible document, such as the Table editor (for example).

Cheers,
Jonathan