Headers and footers in accessible PDF

I have a Microsoft Word 2007 document with headers and footers. When I use the PDFMaker icon to create a PDF for Acrobat 9, I need the headers and footers to be included in the Tags panel and to have a number in the Order panel. However, the header and footer are completely ignored by Acrobat, and treated as "Background."
I sure hope someone has a suggestion about this; otherwise it will be a tremendous amount of work for a long document to add headers and footers into the Order panel and the Tags panel.

The Header and Footer on each page has been designated as an "Artifact".
Standard MO for any competent tag management facility provided with/for the authoring application.
AT knows to ignore artifacts.
An overview of how to fold Header/Footer content into the structure tree open the Tags panel.
From the Options menu use "Find".
Select Find: Artifacts.
When Header/Footer PDF page content is located (the blue box) return focus to the Tags panel.
Select the tag to which the identified content's Container is to placed.
(Upfront - give some thought as to what is to go where in the tree. Fraggled structure trees (bad/improper Tag semantics) can really hose a PDF in terms of accessibility).
On the Find Element dialog, click "Tag Element".
Note where the new Container appears in the structure tree.
Be sure that it and the parent tag are properly placed.
Repeat for each Header/Footer.
Be aware that putting repeating Header/Footer content that, due to being in a Header/Footer, should be an artifact into the structure tree will result in AT presenting the content to the AT end-user over and over again as one moves through the pages.
An almost guaranteed way to really render the "message" intended for the end-user to be drowned out by the "noise".
Such PDFs can be very annoying and thus are, typically, set aside and avoided.
An unintended consequences is the perception that the entity who "owns" the content is, likely, not worth their salt and to be avoided as well.
Best practice — If content is salient to the semantic intent of the document it is properly folded into the text flow.
Be well...

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