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Summary
Accessibility of PDFs exported by Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is greatly improved in Office 2024, Office LTSC 2024, and Microsoft 365 Version 2408 and later. This page has a summary of the improvements to help add-in developers and template providers adapt to the changes.
| Number | Improvement | Word | Excel | PowerPoint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Document has <Document> tag | Yes | ||
| 2 | Chart has <Figure> tag with Alt Text | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 3 | Add-in has <Figure> tag with Alt Text | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 4 | 3D Model has <Figure> tag with Alt Text | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 5 | Ink has <Figure> tag with Alt Text | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 6 | Animated Ink has <Figure> tag with Alt Text | Yes | ||
| 7 | Table with Alt Text has <Figure> tag with Alt Text | Yes | ||
| 8 | SmartArt has single <Figure> tag (no <Figure> tags for child elements) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 9 | SmartArt without Alt Text has <Figure> tag Alt Text set to text outline of SmartArt | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 10 | Group with Alt Text has single <Figure> tag (no <Figure> tags for child elements) | Yes | Yes | |
| 11 | Graphical Object other than Shape without Alt Text has <Figure> tag with blank Alt Text | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 12 | Shape with whitespace text or no text has <Figure> tag with blank Alt Text | Yes | Yes | |
| 13 | Shape with Equation without Alt Text or Decorative has <Formula> tag with Alt Text | Yes | Yes | |
| 14 | Shape with non-whitespace text without Equation, Alt Text, or Decorative has <Sect> tag with text content | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 15 | Shape with Alt Text and non-whitespace text without Equation has <Figure> tag with Alt Text | Yes | Yes | |
| 16 | Table Cell with Equation in a Table without Alt Text has <Formula> tag with Alt Text | Yes | ||
| 17 | Summary Zoom, Section Zoom, and Slide Zoom has <TOC> tag without Alt Text | Yes | ||
| 18 | WordArt preserved as text | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 19 | Alt Text includes the Alt Text Title as well as Alt Text Description | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 20 | Alt Text includes the Object type | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 21 | Alt Text for Shape with Alt Text includes the text content | Yes | Yes | |
| 22 | Header Row in a Table has <THead> tag | Yes | ||
| 23 | Total Row in a Table has <TFoot> tag | Yes | ||
| 24 | Header Cell in Table has Scope=Row, Column, or Both in <TH> tag | Yes | ||
| 25 | Cell in a Table has Row span and Column span set properly on <TH> or <TD> tag | Yes | ||
| 26 | For lists in PowerPoint, bullet or number is in <Lbl> tag | Yes | ||
| 27 | For lists in Word, bullet or number is in <Lbl> tag | Yes | ||
| 28 | For picture bullets, no <Lbl> tag is included | Yes | Yes | |
| 29 | For nested lists, <L> tag is in <LBody> tag | Yes | Yes | |
| 30 | Document language in PDF set as the document language in PowerPoint | Yes | ||
| 31 | Document language in PDF set as the document language in Word | Yes | ||
| 32 | Text in different language has <Span> tag with Lang property in PowerPoint | Yes | ||
| 33 | Text in different language has <Span> tag with Lang property in Word | Yes | ||
| 34 | Actual Text property removed from <Span> tag for text in different language in PowerPoint | Yes | ||
| 35 | Actual Text property removed from <Span> tag for text in different language in Word | Yes | ||
| 36 | <H1> tag for Title Placeholder on Title or Section Header layout in PowerPoint | Yes | ||
| 37 | <H2> tag for Title Placeholder on other slides in PowerPoint | Yes | ||
| 38 | <H1> and <H2> tag logic in PowerPoint works for custom templates | Yes | ||
| 39 | Hyperlinks aren’t nested in <Figure> tags | Yes | Yes | |
| 40 | Hyperlinks are preserved even for Decorative Objects and Objects on the Slide Master or Slide Layout | Yes | ||
| 41 | For a Hyperlink on a Graphical Object, <Link> tag is a sibling of the tag for the Object | Yes | Yes | |
| 42 | For a Hyperlink on text in a Shape with Alt Text, Equation, or Decorative, <Link> tag is a sibling of the tag for the Object | Yes | Yes | |
| 43 | For a Hyperlink on text in a Table Cell with Alt Text, Equation, or Decorative, <Link> tag is a sibling of the tag for the Object | Yes | ||
| 44 | Document Title in PDF set as Document Title in Word | Yes | ||
| 45 | Comment Anchor has <Span> tag in Word | Yes | ||
| 46 | Quote Style has <Quote> tag in Word | Yes | ||
| 47 | Caption has <Caption> tag in Word | Yes | ||
| 48 | Paragraph spanning multiple pages has single <P> tag in Word | Yes | ||
| 49 | Footnote and Endnote have <Link> tag in Word | Yes | ||
| 50 | Footnote and Endnote have <Note> tag in Word | Yes | ||
| 51 | Paragraph Quote and Intense Quote Styles have <BlockQuote> tag in Word | Yes | ||
| 52 | Title Style has <Title> tag in Word | Yes | ||
| 53 | Heading Levels beyond Heading 6 have <H6> tag | Yes | ||
| 54 | Table Header Cell has unique ID | Yes | ||
| 55 | Cell with Header Style has <H1> tag | Yes | ||
| 56 | Marked as artifact and no tags for Shape without Alt Text, text, fill, or outline | Yes | Yes | |
| 57 | Marked as artifact and no tags for Decorative Shapes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 58 | Marked as artifact and no tags for Decorative Ink | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 59 | Marked as artifact and no tags for Decorative Add-ins | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 60 | Marked as artifact and no tags for Decorative Group | Yes | Yes | |
| 61 | Marked as artifact and no tags for Decorative Chart | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 62 | Marked as artifact and no tags for Decorative SmartArt | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 63 | Marked as artifact and no tags for Decorative Table | Yes | ||
| 64 | Marked as artifact and no tags for Objects on the Slide Master and Slide Layout | Yes | ||
| 65 | Marked as artifact and no tags for text formatting marks such as underline, strike-through, and highlight | Yes | Yes | |
| 66 | Marked as artifact and no tags for picture bullets | Yes | Yes | |
| 67 | Marked as artifact and no tags for Comment anchor text shading, brackets, bubbles, and lines in Word | Yes | ||
| 68 | Marked as artifact and no tags for paragraph borders, text borders, and text underlines in Word | Yes | ||
| 69 | Marked as artifact and no tags for paragraph borders, text borders, and text underlines in Word | Yes | ||
| 70 | Marked as artifact and no tags for text box container in Word | Yes | ||
| 71 | Marked as artifact and no tags for Slicer scrollbar in Excel | Yes | ||
| 72 | Marked as artifact and no tags for grid lines and cell borders in Excel | Yes | ||
| 73 | Marked as artifact and no tags for cell shading in Excel | Yes | ||
| 74 | Removed unnecessary <Span> tags for text with justified or distributed alignment | Yes | ||
| 75 | Removed unnecessary <Span> tags for text runs with different formatting | Yes | ||
| 76 | Removed unnecessary <Span> tags for text formatting marks such as highlight | Yes | ||
| 77 | Removed unnecessary <Span> tags for WordArts that have text on a path | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 78 | Removed unnecessary <Span> tags for WordArts that have warped text | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 79 | Removed unnecessary <Span> tags for graphical effect on WordArts such as shadow and reflection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 80 | Removed unnecessary <Span> tags for the slide background in PowerPoint for macOS and web | Yes | ||
| 81 | Removed unnecessary <P> tags | Yes | ||
| 82 | Fixed a problem in Word where Save as Adobe PDF did not preserve headings properly | Yes | ||
| 83 | Fixed a problem in PowerPoint where <TD> and <TH> were omitted for empty Table Cells | Yes | ||
| 84 | Fixed a problem in PowerPoint where Hyperlinks to slides within the presentation were going to the bottoms of the slides rather than the tops of the slides | Yes | ||
| 85 | Fixed a problem in PowerPoint where Hyperlinks in Notes Pages and Outline View were not preserved | Yes | ||
| 86 | Fixed a problem in PowerPoint in Notes Pages where the wrong tags were written for Decorative shapes | Yes | ||
| 87 | Fixed a problem in PowerPoint in Notes Pages where when the notes for a slide spill onto the multiple slides, the wrong tags were written | Yes | ||
| 88 | Fixed a problem in PowerPoint in Notes Pages where for a list that spills across pages, the partial list item on the next page is outside of the <L> tag. Now the partial list item is included in the <L> tag. There is a separate <L> tag in each page. | Yes | ||
| 89 | Fixed a problem in PowerPoint for the web where Decorative Charts were not marked as Artifact | Yes | ||
| 90 | Fixed a problem in PowerPoint for the web where Hyperlinks to slides within the presentation were going to the bottoms of the slides rather than the tops of the slides | Yes | ||
| 91 | Fixed a problem in PowerPoint for the web where the Alt Text on the <Figure> tag for a SmartArt doesn’t include the diagram type | Yes | ||
| 92 | Fixed a problem in PowerPoint for the web where the <Link> tag was missing for a hyperlink to a slide within the presentation | Yes | ||
| 93 | Fixed a problem in PowerPoint for macOS where sometimes the wrong tags are included | Yes | ||
| 94 | Fixed a problem in PowerPoint for macOS where export as PDF fails for a presentation with custom slide numbering | Yes | ||
| 95 | Fixed a problem in PowerPoint for macOS where sometimes hidden slides are included | Yes | ||
| 96 | Fixed a problem in PowerPoint for macOS where sometimes a slide with a Summary Zoom, Section Zoom, and Slide Zoom is blank | Yes | ||
| 97 | Fixed a problem in Excel and PowerPoint where spaces between words were omitted in some cases | Yes | Yes | |
| 98 | Fixed a problem in Excel and PowerPoint where trailing spaces in a text element were omitted | Yes | Yes | |
| 99 | Fixed a problem in Excel and PowerPoint where when there are multiple copies of the same SVG in a presentation, the wrong tags were written | Yes | Yes | |
| 100 | Fixed a problem in Excel and PowerPoint where the wrong tags are written when there are empty paragraphs | Yes | Yes | |
| 101 | Fixed a problem in Excel where images in cells were marked as artifact | Yes | ||
| 102 | Fixed a problem in Excel where export as PDF fails when the Workbook contains an Object with a Hyperlink to Sheet within the Workbook | Yes | ||
| 103 | Added bookmarks for sections and slides | Yes | ||
| 104 | Added the Presentation.ExportAsFixedFormat3 method to the Object Model in PowerPoint to export as PDF with all of the accessibility improvements listed here enabled | Yes |