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From: Cliff Tyllick
Date: Sep 25, 2015 1:40PM

Joe, I forgot to mention a set of free tutorials that you can use to learn how to create accessible documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in Office. One of the tutorials covers the details of making a PDF from a Word document. Another of the tutorials introduces a tab you can add to Word's ribbon to make it easier to create accessible documents.

The value of the tab, which some call the Accessibility tab and others call the Productivity tab, is that it consolidates just about every command that makes it easier to create an accessible document—and gets the commands that would lead you astray out of your face.

To find the tutorials and toolbar, go to
http://gov.texas.gov/disabilities/accessibledocs

These tutorials won the FCC Chairman's Award in 2013 (or 2014?) for contributing to accessibility in the workplace. At least I think that's what the award was for—I'll have to look it up some day.

Cliff Tyllick
Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services

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> On Sep 25, 2015, at 12:56 PM, Krack, Joseph@DOR < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> When I first started making PDF documents and forms I did not have an Acrobat tab in my ribbon. I was told by our IT team that the version of Adobe Pro I had installed (I believe it was X) and the version of Office (2007?) were not compatible and the Acrobat tab could not be made available. So I learned how to make PDF's by opening acrobat and clicking on Create PDF and then browsing for my document. I do now have the Acrobat tab, but just continued to make them as I had been since I started working with Pro.
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> Bevi, once I created a PDF, and confirmed the settings as you laid out below, it seems to work fine. Even when I create a PDF in my 'old' way without using the Acrobat tab it now works - no more double tags. Very odd.
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> I appreciate the assistance from everyone because at first the PDF's I created were ok, but they have been increasingly problematic over time.
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> Thanks again, Joe
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