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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Apr 23, 2014 2:16PM

Apologies for being anal but…:

On 23 Apr 2014, at 22:01, Duff Johnson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>> I know that Microsoft Office for the Mac can't convert to an accessible
>> PDF, but can't VoiceOver read an accessible PDF?
>
> No, VoiceOver cannot read an accessible PDF. Not as of Mac OS 10.9.2 or iOS 7.1.

this should rather say: VoiceOver cannot take advantage of semantic and structural information in a tagged PDF. Not as of Mac OS 10.9.2 or iOS 7.1. It only presents the text content sequentially (in the order it happens to be encoded in the PDF) in the language that happens to be the default language of the operating system. No heading navigation, no table handling, no alternate text for images etc. A shame given that PDF is at the core of presenting content on Mac OS X and iOS.

Olaf