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From: John E. Brandt
Date: Jan 7, 2016 12:47PM

We were not able to create an accessible PDF using any of the Google products so at the University I am consulting with, we informed everyone in the university system not to use them. I'm sure everyone paid attention.

The only solution we found was to drop the Google document in to MS-Office on PC and add the appropriate tags as needed and then save as PDF.

I guess it just another one of those things the folks in GoogleLand have not got around to fixing and making accessible.

~j

John E. Brandt
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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Mickey Williamson
Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 11:13 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Accessible PDFs from Google Doc/Presentation

Has anyone had success in creating accessible PDFs out of a Google Doc or Google Presentation? I download the document as a PDF and it opens fine.
But when I attempt to add tags, I get "Bad PDF; error in processing fonts.
<cannot find CMap resource file>" or "Bad PDF; error in processing fonts.
<bad Type0 font>" depending on whether it comes from Docs or Presentation.
My test document I'm using for this has nothing but one word in the Arial font. A google search has yielded nothing. :-(

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mickey