PowerPoint PDF Accessibility
Article• 11/26/2024
Authors can ensure that their PowerPoint presentations are accessible to people with
disabilities even when distributing them in PDF format using the following approach:
1. First, they should follow the practices in Make your PowerPoint presentations
accessible to people with disabilities.
2. Next, they should follow the steps in Create accessible PDFs to preserve the
accessibility of the presentation in PDF format.
This article provides detailed information about the information PowerPoint includes in
the PDF to make it accessible.
1. PDF/UA  tags are included to provide semantic information about the content in
the presentation.
2. Decorative content does not need to be read, so it is marked as <Artifact> in the
Content Tree in the PDF and no PDF/UA tags are included.
3. Bookmarks for each section and slide are included to make it easier to navigate the
content.
Type of content Tags
Document
<Document>
Slide
<Sect>
Comment
no tags
Summary
PDF/UA Tags
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