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From: Marinette Fargo
Date: Feb 22, 2016 1:12PM

This is great info from everyone!


If any of your students are creating documents on a Mac, please make sure they know that Microsoft Word for the Mac cannot produce a fully accessible PDF. A PDF made from Microsoft Word for the Mac does not retain the structure tags (headings, lists, table headers, etc.) from the original document, so it is difficult for a screen reader user to navigate.

 

A few alternative options for Mac users are:

 

Create your Word document with MS Word for the Mac. Save your document on a thumb drive (or email it to yourself). Then from a PC Microsoft Windows computer open your documents with MS Word and convert them to a PDF.  Make sure to follow the instructions for creating an accessible PDF with MS Office for Windows.

 

Download LibreOffice which is a free, open-source office suite similar to MS Office. LibreOffice is probably being used by some of your students because it's free! It can open MS Word documents and can save documents as MS Word documents. And it can create accessible PDFs!

 

Create your word document with iWork's Pages software, export or save it as a .doc file. Save your document on a thumb drive (or email it to yourself). Then from a PC Microsoft Windows computer open your documents with MS Word and convert them to a PDF.  Make sure to follow the instructions for creating an accessible PDF with MS Office for Windows.

 

I hope this helps some!

Marinette
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