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From: chagnon@pubcom.com
Date: Feb 6, 2018 11:23AM

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Terzian, Sharon < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> ... I was just really wondering if it started off fine/accessible as a Power
> Point, would it still be okay when converted?

Exporting a PDF from a correctly constructed PowerPoint file will be better than the complex mess you currently have. But it won't be perfect.

The PPT to accessible PDF workflow has some shortcomings and also some tragic bugs that were recently introduced by either Microsoft or Adobe (such as lists coming out as P tags).

But no matter how well you construct the PPT, you'll still have a myriad of graphic parts to artifact manually in Acrobat after the PDF is made because there is no way to label anything as an artifact in PPT.

You will, however, be able to improve the reading orders.

One idea: we've moved many of our presentations to Adobe InDesign where we have micro-control on everything and can export a perfect (or very nearly perfect) accessible PDF that looks like a PowerPoint...but better!

--Bevi

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