When converting Word and PowerPoint to PDF, does the conversion preserve the accessibility features in Word and PowerPoint?
For converting Word to PDF, the styles will be preserved as long as you instruct Acrobat to add tags. Refer to the Accessible Word Tutorial available at http://www.sjsu.edu/cfd/tutorials/. Currently we have not been successful at having Acrobat transfer the alternative text. Therefore, it is necessary to create captions in Word for safe conversion or add the alternative text manually once the document has been converted in Acrobat. For converting PowerPoint to PDF, the text in the outline pane will be preserved. JAWS will not see the alternative texts for the images. If the alternative text for the images is provided in the Notes pane and the document is printed to pdf with the Notes feature selected, the alternative text will be available.
