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Re: couple of questions

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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Feb 6, 2018 11:56AM

> 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).

If Microsoft includes an "export to PDF" feature in PowerPoint (and they do), then Microsoft can make an accessible PDF file. It's up to them, but they attend to these sorts of details the same way every software company does: based on customer demand for it.

This link visits a page providing instructions on how to send Microsoft feedback about their software. You can do it from within PowerPoint itself:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/how-do-i-give-feedback-on-microsoft-office-2b102d44-b43f-4dd2-9ff4-23cf144cfb11#platform=Mac <https://support.office.com/en-us/article/how-do-i-give-feedback-on-microsoft-office-2b102d44-b43f-4dd2-9ff4-23cf144cfb11#platform=Mac>
> 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.

As above; this is 100% up to Microsoft; it has nothing to do with PDF. Note that Adobe's software is only one of several that can remediate artifacts.

> 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!

Yep, that's a fine solution… for people who can deal with InDesign. PowerPoint users - especially those with Section 508 obligations - should let Microsoft know that PowerPoint should be doing a better job at PDF output!!

Duff.