Accessibility

From Liability to Asset: Achieving 100% Accessibility with HoloRemedi

March 28, 2025·8 min read

The publishing industry is facing a critical deadline. With the April 2026 ADA Title II mandate and the global shift toward WCAG 2.2 standards, "accessibility" has moved from a niche requirement to a legal and ethical imperative.

Yet, for many publishers, their backlist remains a hidden liability — thousands of PDF and EPUB files that are visually perfect but technically "broken" for readers with disabilities.

AI-powered accessibility remediation: from broken document to certified compliance

The Problem: The Hidden Walls of Legacy Files

Most publishers are sitting on archives where:

PDFs fail technical audits: because of malformed font mappings (CMaps) or unclosed structural blocks that confuse screen readers.

EPUBs lack the semantic depth: and ARIA roles required for modern e-readers and assistive technologies.

Simply put, standard "auto-tagging" tools aren't enough. They can't fix the internal binary errors that cause a document to fail PAC 2026 or DAISY Ace validation.

Introducing HoloRemedi: The Precision Recovery Pipeline

Holograph PressWorks is proud to announce HoloRemedi, a specialised "File Hospital" for the modern publisher. We don't ask you to re-author your books — we take your existing assets and heal them.

Our "Upload, Remediate, Certify" workflow is designed to seamlessly integrate with your existing content management, transforming your digital library into fully compliant assets.

HoloRemedi platform showing AI-assisted remediation with 100% compliance score and live document preview

Track 1: PDF-to-PDF Remediation

Transforming Non-Compliant PDFs into Certified PDF/UA-1 Assets.

For documents where visual layout is paramount and the original PDF must be preserved, HoloRemedi's AxiomRust engine performs deep-tissue binary repair. We go beyond simple tagging to solve the "unfixable" structural issues that cause legal failures.

Binary Font Healing: We reconstruct corrupted ToUnicode tables in legacy fonts (like Walbaum), ensuring every character is searchable and screen-reader readable without altering the visual presentation.

Structural Integrity: Our Content Stream Surgeon cleans internal content to resolve "state leaks" and nesting errors, ensuring the PDF passes the most rigorous technical audits.

The Compliance Proof: You receive your remediated PDF along with PAC 2026 and VeraPDF (XML) reports — the legal evidence of 100% PDF/UA-1 and WCAG compliance.

Track 2: EPUB-to-EPUB Remediation

Future-Proofing Your Content for Reflowable Accessibility.

We transform your existing EPUBs into high-performance, accessible EPUB3 assets, ensuring a seamless, inclusive reading experience across all devices.

Semantic Reconstruction: We inject the necessary ARIA roles, robust navigation, and structural hierarchies that older files often lack.

AI-Enhanced Metadata: Using local, privacy-safe AI, we generate high-fidelity alt-text for images and convert complex technical notations into accessible MathML.

The Certification: Every file is delivered with an official DAISY Ace (HTML) report — the global benchmark for digital book health.

HoloRemedi welcome screen — the AI-native accessibility platform

Your Roadmap to April 2026

The transition to full accessibility doesn't have to be a nightmare of manual labour. HoloRemedi's pipeline is designed for scale, speed, and absolute technical precision.

Standard	What It Covers	Required For
WCAG 2.2 AA	Web & digital content	All digital publications
EPUB Accessibility 1.1	DAISY e-book standard	Distribution platforms
Section 508	US federal & education	Government, education
PDF/UA-1	ISO 14289 for PDFs	Regulated industries
European Accessibility Act	EU digital market	All EU distribution from 2025

Don't let your legacy titles become inaccessible. At Holograph PressWorks, we bridge the gap between the heritage of the printed word and the future of inclusive digital reading.