Document Accessibility Governance

Accessibility is usually treated as a remediation exercise with a deadline, which produces a compliant estate on one date and a non-compliant one shortly afterwards as new content arrives. Treating it as governance means the requirement applies at ingestion and publication, so accessibility is a condition of being in the estate rather than a periodic clean-up. The obstacle is structural: you cannot fix reading order, heading hierarchy or table relationships in content you cannot address.

Because Centralpoint converts content into structured form — OOXML among them — the document becomes addressable enough to remediate systematically: heading levels, reading order, table headers and alternative text become properties rather than visual conventions. The same structural conversion feeds full-text indexing and enrichment, so accessibility work and retrieval quality come from one transformation rather than two.