DSpace accessible to everyone - static PDFs transformed into usable documents that meet accessibility and usability standards

Convert legacy and born-digital PDFs into interactive, WCAG-compliant formats using AI-driven conversion, tagging and enrichment.

Key benefits of implementing AI Accessibility into your DSpace

  • WCAG compliance made scalable: automated tagging and structure reduce the manual effort needed to meet accessibility standards
  • Screen reader friendly: properly ordered content, alt text for images and semantic headings improve usability for assistive technologies
  • Reflowable formats: export to accessible HTML/EPUB for mobile and low-vision readers
  • Improved metadata & discoverability: conversion yields richer metadata (headings, captions, tables) that supports better cataloguing and reuse
  • Cost and time savings: automated pipelines drastically cut the hours required for manual remediation
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Non-obvious benefits for your repository

  • Enhanced machine-readability: well-structured documents enable downstream AI tasks (summarisation, entity extraction, automated indexing) that were impossible with image-only PDFs.
  • Searchable and extractable text: OCR correction and structured text layers enable precise indexing and content reuse
  • Long-term preservation value: creating structured, tagged files aids long-term preservation and interoperability across platforms.
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Core technical steps of conversion

  • Advanced OCR & layout analysis: recover text, tables and document structure with high fidelity
  • Semantic tagging: detect headings, lists, captions and tables; generate proper tags and reading order
  • Alt text generation: create descriptive image captions using vision-language models, with human review workflow
  • Output formats: produce accessible HTML and EPUB to suit diverse user needs
  • Quality assurance: automated checks against WCAG criteria plus sampling for manual validation
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Everyone benefits

  • Administrative staff
    • Is your administrative staff overwhelmed by manual metadata entry and time-consuming OCR cleanup, and struggling with inconsistencies across collections?
    • AI-driven metadata enrichment and batch OCR reduce repetitive work, standardise records and provide dashboards and quality metrics that give staff a clear view of progress and priorities. This frees administrators to focus on higher-value activities like policy, curation and strategic planning.
  • Person with visual impairment
    • Is your user struggling to access scanned PDFs, images without alternative text and non-semantic document structure, making repository content difficult to navigate with assistive technologies?
    • AI accessibility tools provide accurate OCR, semantic headings, alternative text for images and generated audio summaries, and enable voice queries, semantic navigation and context-aware descriptions of figures and tables. This enables independent discovery, understanding and reuse of scholarly content.

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