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Wow, if you cut out pages from a completely accessible pdf and make a new pdf using preview on MacOS, Sequoia, it produces completely inaccessible pdf. Also the file size get much bigger. I guess it just makes into pdf with images? It didn't use to do that! #accessibility #macos
in reply to Chi Kim

This is the sad reality of #MacOS - with every new version you get the unwelcome surprise of random features in Apple's software that used to work great, but are now broken. It's part of the reason I finally switched to #Linux, which although far from perfect, doesn't tend to give you those kinds of headaches. Plus I got sick of updates that took well over an hour to install, granted my Mac Mini was getting a bit long in the tooth but if I wanted to I could put Linux on that, and I am sure that updates would be much faster. Even installing Linux from scratch takes far less time than installing MacOS!
in reply to maple

@maple Unfortunately, the sad reality is that Linux isn't a viable option for me. At least in my opinion, its accessibility, especially for screen readers, is, (let's just put it very mildly) not welcoming. Whenever I have to use Linux for server and machine learning related stuff, I end up doing everything via ssh logged in from another machine that's more screen reader friendly. Also, I'm in the music tech industry, almost no one (except maybe a very very tiny fraction) uses Linux.