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From: Carin Headrick
Date: Wed, Mar 24 2010 9:54AM
Subject: alt tags in PDF's
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Hi. Someone wants to alt tag graphics in a PDF, and they tried a couple of different ways, and all I got were numbers on the graphics. What is the proper way to tag a PDF?
Thanks.
Carin
From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Wed, Mar 24 2010 10:48AM
Subject: Re: alt tags in PDF's
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Are you making the pdf yourself (if so, how) or are you just doing repair? If the latter, what tools do you have?
Awk
Andrew Kirkpatrick
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Subject: [WebAIM] alt tags in PDF's
Hi. Someone wants to alt tag graphics in a PDF, and they tried a couple of different ways, and all I got were numbers on the graphics. What is the proper way to tag a PDF?
Thanks.
Carin
From: Carin Headrick
Date: Wed, Mar 24 2010 11:03AM
Subject: Re: alt tags in PDF's
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It's a staff from the city. I think she's using acrobat but I'll have to check to confirm.
Carin
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Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] alt tags in PDF's
Are you making the pdf yourself (if so, how) or are you just doing repair? If the latter, what tools do you have?
Awk
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Senior Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems
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Sent: Wed Mar 24 07:53:00 2010
Subject: [WebAIM] alt tags in PDF's
Hi. Someone wants to alt tag graphics in a PDF, and they tried a couple of different ways, and all I got were numbers on the graphics. What is the proper way to tag a PDF?
Thanks.
Carin
From: Christophe Strobbe
Date: Wed, Mar 24 2010 11:15AM
Subject: Re: alt tags in PDF's
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At 17:03 24/03/2010, Carin Headrick wrote:
>It's a staff from the city. I think she's using acrobat but I'll
>have to check to confirm.
Have you checked the 'Document Properties' in Adobe Reader/Adobe
Acrobat? These properties tell you which "PDF Producer" was used, the
PDF version, if the PDF file is tagged, if the file is optimised for
fast web view, etcetera.
Best regards,
Christophe
>Carin
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>Are you making the pdf yourself (if so, how) or are you just doing
>repair? If the latter, what tools do you have?
>Awk
>Andrew Kirkpatrick
>Senior Product Manager, Accessibility
>Adobe Systems
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>Hi. Someone wants to alt tag graphics in a PDF, and they tried a
>couple of different ways, and all I got were numbers on the
>graphics. What is the proper way to tag a PDF?
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>Thanks.
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>Carin
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From: Carin Headrick
Date: Wed, Mar 24 2010 1:30PM
Subject: Re: alt tags in PDF's
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She says she's using Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard and doing a repair on an existing document.
Carin
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From: Carin Headrick
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Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] alt tags in PDF's
It's a staff from the city. I think she's using acrobat but I'll have to check to confirm.
Carin
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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
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Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] alt tags in PDF's
Are you making the pdf yourself (if so, how) or are you just doing repair? If the latter, what tools do you have?
Awk
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Senior Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems
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Sent: Wed Mar 24 07:53:00 2010
Subject: [WebAIM] alt tags in PDF's
Hi. Someone wants to alt tag graphics in a PDF, and they tried a couple of different ways, and all I got were numbers on the graphics. What is the proper way to tag a PDF?
Thanks.
Carin
From: Hull, Larry G. (GSFC-750.0)[GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER]
Date: Wed, Mar 24 2010 1:39PM
Subject: Re: alt tags in PDF's
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Last time I checked, remediation could only be done using Adobe Acrobat Pro. However, it should be possible to correct the source document(s) and use Adobe Acrobat Standard to generate an PDF with alternate text for the graphics.
It has been several years since I've been involved in creating PDF documents so someone with more recent experience may want to correct me here if things have changed.
Larry
From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Thu, Mar 25 2010 4:06PM
Subject: Re: alt tags in PDF's
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She's going to need Acrobat Pro to do tag remediation.
Thanks,
AWK
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Senior Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems
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