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From: Greg Kraus
Date: Apr 25, 2014 5:57AM

On the issue of LibreOffice and OpenOffice on OS X for creating tagged
PDFs, I had actually just written this blog post concerning the
subject, at least for word processing documents.

http://accessibility.oit.ncsu.edu/blog/2014/04/18/the-pain-of-accessible-pdfs-from-ms-word-on-mac-test-results/

This specifically looked at the workflow of starting with MS Word for
OS X and how to make an accessible PDF. There are limitations to this
workflow, but it highlights some of the issues on OS X.

One takeaway from this is if you use LibreOffice or OpenOffice for
word processing, alternative text must go in the title field, not the
description field, if you want that text to pass through to the tagged
PDF. This is different than what you must do with MS Word on Windows.

Greg

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>>> As for making accessible PDF documents with the Mac OSX, the last
>>> time I checked, the only way was with LibreOffice (and perhaps
>>> OpenOffice). You can make an accessible word publisher document and
>>> save it as a PDF and it would retain the proper tagging. Honestly, I
>>> haven't checked that for several years, but I would assume it still
> works.
>>
>> It does. OpenOffice will create a tagged PDF on the Mac. I just checked /
> confirmed.
>>