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Re: Accessible PDFs from Google Doc/Presentation

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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Jan 7, 2016 10:45AM

> At this time, Adobe's products still reign supreme for PDFs, whether you need a press-quality one for sending to the print shop, or an accessible one for electronic distribution.

With respect… not so. There are other products that do as good and in some cases a much better job of creating tagged PDF from MS Word files (for example) than Acrobat in its current incarnation.

Moreover, some of these tools - typically the ones oriented specifically towards accessibility - include far, far better resources than Acrobat provides for ensuring accessibility of PDF documents.

It's not my role to identify these vendors here.. but they exist, they aren't hiding and their products are available for sale today.

Duff.