Borne-Accessible Document

A document that is created accessibly from the outset—its semantic structure, headings, alt text, and tags are built in at authoring time rather than added later through remediation. Borne-accessible PDFs come out of authoring tools (e.g., Microsoft Word, LaTeX with accessibility packages) already tagged with the structure assistive technologies need, avoiding the tedious post-hoc correction that remediation requires. The concept contrasts with post-hoc remediation of inaccessible files and is central to scaling document accessibility, since remediation workflows rarely keep pace with publishing volume.