Accessible PDFs in Microsoft Word

According to the Office Watch newsletter, Word 365 now reminds you to create accessibility tags when you create a PDF.

Word is getting reminders for accessibility before making a PDF.

When Word makes a PDF version of a document, it includes accessibility tags. These tags help screen readers (spoken for blind and the visually impaired) and also adjusting the PDF for small and large displays.

When saving a PDF (File | Export or File | Save a Copy) there’s a reminder to check accessibility before making the PDF version.

In older versions of Word, the option ot add accessibility tags is a check box in the Settings tab of the PDFMaker add-in, where it's likely to be missed.