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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Nov 7, 2015 8:31AM

Thanks for the great discussion. Very helpful.

No you still cannot create a tagged PDF on a Mac and without that...

I asked this question of Rob Sinclair of Microsoft at IAAP and he said
something like "It's getting better...look for new features soon." But no
promises.

<rant>I think we should all shout about this loudly enough that someone
hears our pain. Not to be able to create even a simple "text and a few
headings" document to a tagged PDF is unspeakable. It's not like the code
doesn't exist. It makes everything we do just that much harder. How long do
we have to wait?</rant>
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:04 PM Chaals McCathie Nevile < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Nov 2015 19:02:39 +0100, Chaals McCathie Nevile
> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 04 Nov 2015 18:15:04 +0100, Olaf Drümmer
> > < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> >>> On 04.11.2015, at 16:13, Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC)
> >>> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >>>
> >>> [...] I recommend publishing the content as HTML. There are a large
> >>> number of free text and html editors available […]
> >>
> >> I'd be interested to learn about HTML editors that are usable and tend
> >> to produce accessible HTML.
> >>
> >> I have tried
> >> - SeaMonkey: horrible user experience
> >> - TypeMetal on Mac: much better user experience than SeaMonkey, but
> >> still a pain to use for all the documents I deal with.
> >> - Dreamweaver and similar tools: from my POV not intended/suitable for
> >> everyday documents 9rather tools for designers, website creators etc.)
> >>
> >> What else should I look at? Who is writing their memos, product infos,
> >> white papers, in HTML, rather than Word, and can recommend a tool that
> >> one could use like one uses Word?
> >
> > Me. I use BlueGriffon, which is generally pretty good for editing and
> > gives me good control over the HTML it creates which is generally
> > semantically clean and lovely (except if I paste stuff, then it gives me
> > a rich Mac paste with a monstruous pile of span-style, but that's a Mac
> > "feature" I believe).
> >
> > I don't think it has been updated for a while and wonder if it is still
> > in development.
>
> And of course because I haven't looked for a couple of weeks (being busy
> with other stuff) I missed a big upgrade.
>
> Yes, it is still in development.
>
> cheers
>
>
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> Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex
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