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From: Mohith B. P.
Date: Tue, Aug 12 2014 1:36AM
Subject: Issue in creating an Accessible PDF
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HI All,

I am facing an issue while creating a PDF from Word 2010:
All the graphics are listed one below another in the PDF file.
The graphics are positioned in different sections under different
headings in the word document.
The word document has been structured keeping accessibility in mind
(Styles and alternate text as specified by Adobe documentation)

Please help me to tackle this issue.


Thanks & Regards,
Mohith B. P.

From: Bhaskarjyoti Hazarika
Date: Tue, Aug 12 2014 3:09AM
Subject: Re: Issue in creating an Accessible PDF
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You might want to change the reading order in Adobe Pro.

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HI All,

I am facing an issue while creating a PDF from Word 2010:
All the graphics are listed one below another in the PDF file.
The graphics are positioned in different sections under different
headings in the word document.
The word document has been structured keeping accessibility in mind
(Styles and alternate text as specified by Adobe documentation)

Please help me to tackle this issue.


Thanks & Regards,
Mohith B. P.

From: Karlen Communications
Date: Tue, Aug 12 2014 4:11AM
Subject: Re: Issue in creating an Accessible PDF
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If you are Using Word 2007 or 2010 this sounds like a variant to the known
bug of "all figures are thrown to the top of the Tags Tree" issue and I have
seen it before. If you used captions for the images, Artifact the images in
Acrobat Pro and those using adaptive technology will still be able to read
the figure captions. If you didn't use captions, move the images that relate
to content to their place in the Tags Tree and Artifact any decorative
images.

Cheers, Karen

From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Tue, Aug 12 2014 7:12AM
Subject: Re: Issue in creating an Accessible PDF
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I've got the bug right here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2701086

As I see it, your workarounds are this:
1) Do as Karen suggests below. Or,
2) Save as .doc instead of .docx and export to PDF from the older file format.

Hope this helps,
AWK

From: Jeff Howcroft
Date: Tue, Aug 12 2014 11:37AM
Subject: Re: Issue in creating an Accessible PDF
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Hi,

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Power Point documents into accessible PDFs. The user needs to have very
little knowledge of accessibility or PDF structure.

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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Tue, Aug 12 2014 8:36PM
Subject: Re: Issue in creating an Accessible PDF
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Best solution is to upgrade to Word 2013, which corrects the problem
entirely. Figures and sidebar text boxes end up in the PDF's tag tree in the
correction location.

Upgrading to better software fixes the problem totally.

--Bevi Chagnon

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From: Mohith B. P.
Date: Wed, Aug 13 2014 6:11AM
Subject: Re: Issue in creating an Accessible PDF
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Hi All,

Thanks for the suggestions.
Saving the file in the .doc format and exporting to PDF solved the issue.

I could not upgrade to 2013 due to other constraints.


Thanks & Regards,
Mohith B. P.

On 8/13/14, Chagnon | PubCom < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Best solution is to upgrade to Word 2013, which corrects the problem
> entirely. Figures and sidebar text boxes end up in the PDF's tag tree in
> the
> correction location.
>
> Upgrading to better software fixes the problem totally.
>
> --Bevi Chagnon
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> www.PubCom.com - Trainers, Consultants, Designers, Developers.
> Print, Web, Acrobat, XML, eBooks, and U.S. Federal Section 508
> Accessibility.
> Take a Sec. 508 Class in 2014 - www.Pubcom.com/classes
>
>