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From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Feb 25, 2017 8:28AM

Hello,

You didn't mention if you were using the default applications on the Mac of Pages and Preview, or the Microsoft / Adobe designed applications. I know that in Sierra Apple completely rebuilt the PDF libraries, but I believe that the builtin PDF systems on Apple still ignore accessibility tags. I might however be mistaken about that.

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Best wishes,

Jonathan Cohn




> On Feb 25, 2017, at 8:46 AM, Mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I do happen to know that IF it's created accessibly (which isn't always
> easy), a powerpoint can work on a Mac, as I've recently heard an okay
> demo with VO on a mathy powerpoint. It seems to even read the equations
> from the equation editor (unless that was alt text I was hearing).t
>
> However it's apparently really easy to make inaccessible PP's so it
> wouldn't surprise me. But I wanted you to know that it should be
> possible if someone's able to change these docs. I'm not sure about Word
> but I would *think* it could also be made okay.
>
> cheers,
> Mallory
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017, at 06:12 PM, Swift, Daniel P. wrote:
>> I'll check it out - thanks!
>>
>> Dan Swift
>> Web Technical Specialist
>> Enterprise Services
>> West Chester University
>> 610.738.0589
>>
>>