MANUAL: improve phrasing in PDF accessibility section

Co-authored-by: Ilona Silverwood <ilonasilverwood@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt
index df9d09d63..f1ed6587c 100644
--- a/MANUAL.txt
+++ b/MANUAL.txt
@@ -7185,16 +7185,15 @@ metadata field (see [EPUB Metadata], above).
 
 PDF is a flexible format, and using PDF in certain contexts
 requires additional conventions. For example, PDFs are not
-accessible by default, they define how characters are placed on a
-page but do not contain semantic information on the content by
-default. However, it is possible to generate accessible PDFs,
-which use tagging to add semantic information to the document.
+accessible by default; they define how characters are placed on a
+page but do not contain semantic information on the content.
+However, it is possible to generate accessible PDFs, which use
+tagging to add semantic information to the document.
 
-Pandoc's default method to generate PDF output is via LaTeX.
-Tagging support in LaTeX is in development and not readily
-available, so PDFs generated in this way will always be untagged
-and not accessible. Alternative engines must be used to generate
-accessible PDFs.
+Pandoc defaults to LaTeX to generate PDF. Tagging support in LaTeX
+is in development and not readily available, so PDFs generated in
+this way will always be untagged and not accessible. This means
+that alternative engines must be used to generate accessible PDFs.
 
 The PDF standards PDF/A and PDF/UA define further restrictions
 intended to optimize PDFs for archiving and accessibility. Tagging
@@ -7245,10 +7244,10 @@ See the prince documentation for more info.
 
 Word processors like LibreOffice and MS Word can also be used to
 generate standardized and tagged PDF output. Pandoc does not
-support direct conversions via these tools. Pandoc can convert a
-document to a `docx` or `odt` file, which can then be opened and
-converted to PDF with the respective word processor. See the
-documentation for [Word][word-accessible-pdfs] and
+support direct conversions via these tools. However, pandoc can
+convert a document to a `docx` or `odt` file, which can then be
+opened and converted to PDF with the respective word processor.
+See the documentation for [Word][word-accessible-pdfs] and
 [LibreOffice][lo-pdf-export].
 
 [word-accessible-pdfs]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-accessible-pdfs-064625e0-56ea-4e16-ad71-3aa33bb4b7ed