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Although Quarto can't on its own guarantee accessibility requirements are met, many are satisfied through the Markdown structure of the document:
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@gordonwoodhull Should we say anything about the YAML values that get propogated to the PDF document metadata too? I.e. I think you always need to set title.


- **Alt text propagation**: Alt text from markdown image captions and `fig-alt` attributes is passed through to the PDF for screen readers. See [Figures](/docs/authoring/figures.qmd) for details on specifying alt text.
- **Alt text propagation**: Alt text from markdown image captions and `fig-alt` attributes is passed through to the PDF for screen readers. See [Figures](/docs/authoring/figures.qmd#alt-text) for details on specifying alt text.
- **Document tagging**: Markdown provides the semantic structure to fulfill tagging requirements. Typst always has PDF tagging enabled, and Quarto enables PDF tagging for LaTeX when you specify a standard that requires it. [PDF/UA standards and PDF/A "a" variants like `a-2a`]{.aside}

Use validation (described below) to identify accessibility issues in your documents that may require manual attention.
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