This video will show
you how to convert a Word document
to a tagged accessible PDF.
It's important to realise though, that the PDF
will still require some remediation work.
Here I have a Word document
and the first thing to ensure is that your Word document is accessible.
So I'm going to do an accessibility check by clicking on the review menu
and check accessibility.
No accessibility issues have been found,
but I know that that will only identify some accessibility issues.
So I'm just going to check that,
for example, my headings are all correctly marked up
as headings. So I'm going to do that in the home menu,
and by checking that in styles,
the headings are marked as heading one
and heading two and so on.
I'm going to check that this text box
is actually not really a text box, but text on the page.
I'm happy that my source document is accessible.
I'm now going to go to the file menu
and save as Adobe PDF.
I'm going to choose where I want to save my document
and I'm going to give my document a name, Canine Partners.
Before clicking save, I need to click on the options button
and ensure that there are two boxes that are checked.
The first is enable accessibility and reflow with tagged Adobe PDF.
That's essential,
otherwise, the PDF I create won't be accessible,
and the second one that must be checked is convert Word headings to bookmarks.
That's usually checked by default.
The first one is not usually checked by default,
but once you've checked it, it often holds that information.
I'm going to click okay
and save.
And that has created a PDF for me.