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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Aug 12, 2014 8:36PM

Best solution is to upgrade to Word 2013, which corrects the problem
entirely. Figures and sidebar text boxes end up in the PDF's tag tree in the
correction location.

Upgrading to better software fixes the problem totally.

--Bevi Chagnon

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Andrew
Kirkpatrick
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 9:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Issue in creating an Accessible PDF

I've got the bug right here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2701086

As I see it, your workarounds are this:
1) Do as Karen suggests below. Or,
2) Save as .doc instead of .docx and export to PDF from the older file
format.

Hope this helps,
AWK

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Karlen
Communications
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 6:12 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Issue in creating an Accessible PDF

If you are Using Word 2007 or 2010 this sounds like a variant to the known
bug of "all figures are thrown to the top of the Tags Tree" issue and I have
seen it before. If you used captions for the images, Artifact the images in
Acrobat Pro and those using adaptive technology will still be able to read
the figure captions. If you didn't use captions, move the images that relate
to content to their place in the Tags Tree and Artifact any decorative
images.

Cheers, Karen

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Mohith B. P.
Sent: August 12, 2014 3:37 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Issue in creating an Accessible PDF

HI All,

I am facing an issue while creating a PDF from Word 2010:
All the graphics are listed one below another in the PDF file.
The graphics are positioned in different sections under different headings
in the word document.
The word document has been structured keeping accessibility in mind (Styles
and alternate text as specified by Adobe documentation)

Please help me to tackle this issue.


Thanks & Regards,
Mohith B. P.
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