PDFMaker & Word - configuration possible?

++ Adding to the valuable guidance Bevi Chagnon

This topic is not my lane and from what I understand there are no ways to configure MS Word and the Adobe PDFMaker altogether.

However, if you're asking how to retain a desired accessibility structure in your MS Word document you may want to run first the already integrated Accessibility Checker of MS Word before employing the Adobe PDFMaker add-in.

From further reading other threads in these forums, some users have suggested to use this tool to assist in the discovery of accessibility issues in the MS Word document not known to the user.

It will provide you with suggestions on how to fix them before exporting the document to an accessible PDF.

In addition, using the MS Word Accessibility Checker also gives you a greater chance of retaining a desired accessibility structure after you've exported the document with the PDFMaker add-in.

Please also refer to the following links for additional insights:

• https://www.howtogeek.com/715042/how-to-make-your-word-document-more-accessible-to-everyone/

• https://web.wsu.edu/creating-an-accessible-microsoft-word-document/

• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/make-your-content-accessible-to-everyone-ecab0fcf-d143-4fe8-a2ff-6cd596bddc6d?redirectsourcepath=%252fen-us%252farticle%252faccessibility-in-office-365-aca7accf-58a0-4467-be5c-24a7e7933a9d

• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/make-your-word-documents-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities-d9bf3683-87ac-47ea-b91a-78dcacb3c66d

• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-accessible-office-documents-868ecfcd-4f00-4224-b881-a65537a7c155

• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/video-improve-accessibility-with-heading-styles-68f1eeff-6113-410f-8313-b5d382cc3be1

Well, the Preferences in the Acrobat tab/ribbon give you some controls, but not how it's going to handle footnotes. That is automatically programmed by PDF Maker and we can't adjust it.

PDF Maker should create a <Note> tag around the footnote's text, and put a <Ref> tag around the superscript/reference number in the body text.

The <Note> tag can appear as the paragraph following the <P> that contains the <Ref>.

Download and review the Tagged PDF Syntax Guide from the PDF Association at https://www.pdfa.org/resource/tagged-pdf-best-practice-guide-syntax/  It's the most authoritative reference available for tagged, accessible PDFs because the PDF Association is the designated monitor of all PDF standards by the ISO.