text: **Summary**
  
  Authors can ensure that their Execl workbooks 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 Accessibility best practices with Excel 
  
  spreadsheets  . 
  
  2. Next, they should follow the steps in Create accessible PDFs   to preserve the 
  
  accessibility of the workbook in PDF format. 
  
  This article provides details about the information Excel includes in the PDF to make it 
  
  accessible. 
  
  1. PDF/UA tags are included to provide semantic information about the content in 
  
  the document. 
  
  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. 