text: **Summary**
  
  Authors can ensure that their Word documents 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 Word documents accessible to 
  
  people with disabilities  . 
  
  2. Next, they should follow the steps in Create accessible PDFs   to preserve the 
  
  accessibility of the document in PDF format. 
  
  This article provides details about the information Word 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. 
  
  3. Bookmarks for each section and slide are included to make it easier to navigate the 
  
  content. 