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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Feb 22, 2016 2:07PM

And these resources
http://karlencommunications.com/OfficeForWindowsAccessibility.html

For both creating accessible documents and for students with disabikitiesnwriting assignments/papers.

As well as conference handouts related to accessible WordPDF on the handouts page.

Cheers, Karen

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> On Feb 22, 2016, at 3:58 PM, Jim Allan < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> and there is this -
> Adobe® Acrobat® X Creating Accessible PDF Files from Microsoft® Word
> http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/accessibility/products/acrobat/pdfs/acrobat-x-accessible-pdf-from-word.pdf
>
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Marinette Fargo < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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