Accessible PDF documents

It is very usual that you use a MS Word application to create PDF documents by exporting/saving the document as PDF. While saving / exporting as PDF you must take care to preserve the accessibility information of the document.

An accessible PDF document is called Tagged PDF. Because while exporting/saving as PDF you have to include tags. Tags help to store the information required to preserve accessibility of the document.

Steps to follow to include tags while saving/exporting as PDF from MS Word:-

  1. Click on Save as and choose type as PDF
  2. Click on Options button
  3. Enable Document structure tags for accessibility checkbox by ticking it
  4. Click OK and Save as PDF