This isn't about text formatting. It's about things like reading order, alternative text for figures, or even just making clear to the PDF engine that two conse

This isn't about text formatting. It's about things like reading order, alternative text for figures, or even just making clear to the PDF engine that two consecutive words are part of the same paragraph (which isn't even the case by default!). Take a look at this: https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/An_introduction_to_tagged_PDF_files%3A_internals_and_the_challenges_of_accessibility https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/An_introduction_to_tagg... As GP said, it's really shameful that, in academia, we just ignore this kind of stuff. I tried making my articles' PDFs accessible and failed miserably.