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

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Mar 10, 2014 12:31PM

Thanks, I was hoping that if the dialog was there with the ability to create
Tags, that the option to add Bookmarks was there too. Am in the process of
migrating to a new MacBook Pro and haven't got Office for Mac 2011 on it
yet.

Cheers, Karen

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of John E Brandt
Sent: March 10, 2014 2:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Can Word and Adobe Acrobat on a Mac make
accessible/tagged PDF files?

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
jebswebs: accessible and universal web design, development and consultation
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Augusta, Maine, USA

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Karlen
Communications
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 6:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Can Word and Adobe Acrobat on a Mac make
accessible/tagged PDF files?

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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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Duff Johnson
Sent: March 9, 2014 11:36 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
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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