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

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From: John E Brandt
Date: Mar 10, 2014 12:04PM

Karen,

I am not seeing the option to "create bookmarks" or "the radio button to
create them from Headings" in the Word for Mac 2011. I only see this in the
Window version of MS Word 2013.

For everyone interested in this thread...

On a lark, I tested to see if a Word for Mac file copied into Pages and then
saved as a PDF would produce a tagged PDF. The answer is no. I also created
a fresh Pages document with Heading/Title and some bullets and saved as a
PDF. When checked with Adobe Acrobat Pro on Windows, and the answer was
again no, the file had not produced a tagged PDF. So apparently neither Word
for Mac 2011 and Pages (v 5.1) are not capable of producing tagged PDFs.

The good news is that the latest version of Pages (v 5.1) does work with
VoiceOver on MacOSX Mavericks.

I had reported in the past that LibreOffice on the Mac was capable of
producing tagged PDF. Anyone know if this is still true?

~j

John E. Brandt
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