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Re: Office 365 for authoring accessible documents
From: Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC)
Date: Nov 4, 2015 8:13AM
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You really need a more robust tool than MS office to create accessible PDFs reliably. Tables will only have column headers, the tag order may be incorrect if either the images are floated or if the file is docx file type. MS office does not have a tool that you can use to inspect and repair the PDF document as needed.
If you cannot afford a robust PDF tool, I recommend publishing the content as HTML. There are a large number of free text and html editors available. You can publish the PDF content along-side of the HTML content.
Mike Moore
Accessibility Coordinator
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Civil Rights Office
(512) 438-3431 (Office)
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I'd be interested in knowing if Office 2016 for Mac can finally create tagged pdf files?
Joseph Sherman
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