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From: L Snider
Date: Feb 6, 2018 9:21AM

Hi Sharon,

Holy moly, now I see why you wanted to go back to a PowerPoint! Was it
tagged? Or did you need to tag it?

For anything converted to a PDF, for me, I never use the word automatic...a
bit easier maybe, but that would be as far as I would go.

You would still need to do work in the PDF to make it WCAG, and even more
work to make it PDF/UA. I assume since you mentioned ADA, you are going for
WCAG, a bit less work but still some work in PDF. Plus, then there is the
reflow and tag orders, which should be okay if the PowerPoint was done
well, but again this depends on many things (in my experience).

Cheers

Lisa

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 9:48 AM, Terzian, Sharon < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Lisa, well it was sent to me to fix as a PDF, it's 24 pages and came
> from a Power Point. It has up to 100 items/errors to fix on EACH page, as
> in it deals with every piece of every graphic as a separate entity. On
> several pages, there are bulleted lists, all with designs behind them. And
> the order is a nightmare with up for (again) 100 things to either ignore or
> put in order. I know that it's easier to do in Power Point (as far as
> order, etc) even if I started over and cut and pasted each 'piece' instead
> of wrangling with it. Since it's also going to be translated into several
> other languages, I was just curious to know if it started as a full
> accessible (tagged, ordered, etc) Power Point, would it automatically be
> fine as a PDF.
> And yes I have the full, paid version of Adobe.
>
> Thanks!
>
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