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

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Mar 10, 2014 7:50AM

Hey guys

Thanks very much for all this feedback.
I will get back with the user, ask him to send me the Word file, then
I will apply some magic and export it to PDF myself.
I gather from the responses here that if some additional touch up is
required by Adobe Acrobat, he could apply those, even on a Mac.
Out of interest, are the Adobe ACrobat version numbers the same on a
Mac as those on Windows, i.e. is AA8 on a Mac same as AA for Windows
(in which case, yes, it is 3 versions out of date, and at least 2
versions out of ideal accessibility feature set).
Cheers and thanks again
-Birkir


On 3/10/14, Olaf Drümmer < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> I actually believe that what you write should be stated in a much more
> general fashion:
>
> the usual rules and best practices still apply!
>
> A Windows (or Word on Windows) user can neglect proper use of style sheets
> or other aspects as much as a Mac (or Word on Mac) user.
>
> Olaf
>
>
>
>
> Am 10 Mar 2014 um 14:12 schrieb Jonathan Metz < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:
>
>> 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 OENormal¹ (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
>>
>> >> >> >
> > > >


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