Why we're building it
Professional PDF remediation has a well-kept secret: most of the time isn't spent on hard judgement calls — it's spent on repetitive mechanics. Building tag trees element by element. Re-ordering content the export mangled. Marking up the fortieth table of the day, cell by cell. The expertise matters at a hundred decision points, but between those points lies hours of skilled-hands-doing-routine-work.
We've remediated documents of every shape — scanned archives, complex forms, visual-first slide decks — and that daily experience is the design brief. DeepTag is the tool we wished existed, so we started building it ourselves.
What DeepTag is
DeepTag is a tagging assistant for accessibility professionals — software that accelerates the slowest parts of remediation while keeping the specialist in charge:
- Tag structure, faster — building and repairing tag trees without element-by-element drudgery
- Reading order that starts right — so specialists verify and refine instead of rebuilding from scratch
- Table semantics at speed — headers, scope, and structure for the most time-consuming element in any document
- A workflow built around review — every change visible, checkable, and correctable before it ships
- Standards-first by design — PDF/UA, HSS, and WCAG 2.0/2.1/2.2 are the target, with PAC validation in mind from the first build
What it means for our clients
Even before DeepTag becomes a product, you'll feel it in our service: the tooling we build for ourselves shortens turnarounds and makes quality more consistent — the same expert review, with less waiting. Every document we remediate still ships with PAC 2024 validation and a signed ACR/VPAT, exactly as today.
Status: in development
DeepTag is being built and tested inside our own remediation practice. No launch date yet — we'll announce news here first. Questions about it? Get in touch.