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From: L Snider
Date: Apr 17, 2019 6:57AM

Hi Karen,

Just confirmed with the latest Word and Acrobat Pro updates that this
is still an issue on Mac. The decorative does not transfer to the PDF
using the cloud conversion to the PDF (only way to get tags).

I really wish Adobe would make their Mac products better, it is 2019
and that Word feature has been in there for over a year.

Cheers

Lisa

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 6:48 AM Karlen Communications
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Yes, if you use the new tools like Mark as Decorative, they are not backward
> compatible. If you are using them, you/your department/organization should
> decide which version you check against if you mandate a clean accessibility
> check. As the standards change (WCAG and PDF/UA), there will be changes to
> all of the automated the accessibility checkers.
>
> I've used the Mark as Decorative with both the Microsoft ability to save as
> a tagged PDF and Adobe Acrobat Pro DC all updates installed and if you mark
> an image as decorative in Office, it is an Artifact in the tagged PDF
> document.
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of L
> Snider
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 10:33 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Powerpoint 2019 Accessibility Checker
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> As you noted, 2016 is an older checker and in my experience on Mac and PC,
> it will throw errors. Go with the 2019 version, as this checker will be the
> one going forward.
>
> One note, in my experience (others may not have it and I haven't tried this
> on the absolute newest update) on both Mac and PC, when I convert to PDF the
> decorative throws errors as no alt text. Basically just double check it to
> make sure, if you convert to PDF.
>
> I need to try this on the newest update to Acrobat Pro on both Mac and PC,
> as this may have been fixed in Acrobat.
>
> Cheers
>
> Lisa
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 8:25 PM Greenfield, Mark < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> > I created my first PowerPoint presentation using PowerPoint 2019.
> > There are some images that I have marked as "decorative". (I was very
> > happy to see this feature added to PowerPoint 2019.)
> >
> > When I run the Accessibility Checker in PowerPoint 2019, there are no
> errors. But when I run the Accessibility Checker in PowerPoint 2016, this
> images are flagged for not having alt text. My question is which
> accessibility check to believe. I'm assuming the 2019 version, but I wanted
> to reach out to this group for their thoughts.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > Mark A. Greenfield
> > Web Accessibility Officer
> > Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
> > 416 Capen Hall
> > State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, N.Y. 14260
> > telephone: (716)645-2811
> > e-mail: <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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