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<div>Evalyne and everyone,</div>
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<div>Accessibility of PDFs on the Mac varies. We’ve noticed that VO now does a fair job with PDFs in Acrobat Pro DC (which is the newest version). It isn’t great, but it’s better than previous versions. VO with Adobe *Reader* is terrible: it won’t read much
if any text. VO will usually read PDF text in Preview, but it won’t convey structure. For some purposes, that might be fine. What some people do with PDFs on the Mac is open in Reader and save as text, then read that with VO, as a workaround.</div>
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<div>So it is possible that the vendor created an accessible PDF, which will work well on Windows but not on Mac.</div>
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<div>-Madeleine</div>
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<div>Madeleine Rothberg</div>
<div>Senior Subject Matter Expert</div>
<div>National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH</div>
<div><a href="http://ncam.wgbh.org">http://ncam.wgbh.org</a></div>
<div>madeleine_rothberg@wgbh.org</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><McInnish>, "Evalyne M. (MU-Student)" <<a href="mailto:emmth9@mail.missouri.edu">emmth9@mail.missouri.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, November 17, 2015 11:06 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Athen] Mac/Accessible PDF compatibility<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Could anyone speak to the current status of compatibility between Macintosh computers running VoiceOver and accessible PDFs? Our team has been requested to test a PDF for accessibility and were specifically requested to test on both Windows
and Mac with screen reader software. The PDF was created by an outside company who claim the PDF is accessible, but we had a great deal of trouble when we tested it with VoiceOver, both in Preview and Adobe Reader. Any and all information about the current
compatibility between Macs and accessible PDFs is greatly appreciated. If you prefer, you may contact me directly at
<a href="mailto:emmth9@mail.missouri.edu">emmth9@mail.missouri.edu</a>. Thank you for your assistance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best Wishes,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Californian FB', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; ">Evalyne McInnish<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">M.A. Student-Library Sciences<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Graduate Research Assistant, ACT Center<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Missouri<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:emmth9@mail.missouri.edu">email</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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