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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
>
>