# Remediation: March 9, 2027 — Budget hearing agenda (consultant intake copy)

Automated veraPDF PDF/UA-1 results before and after remediation. They cannot establish conformance on their own; qualified human screen-reader review is pending.

Received from: Outside budget consultant (fictional), sent as an untagged PDF

The intake file is never bundled or published.

## Before

Result: fail

PDF sha256: 2ed2fd54f3e0c22e0feb4c36cd6e095665edc8ba654745f318795bbe89a26b84

Rules: 101 passed, 5 failed. Checks: 414 passed, 18 failed.

[veraPDF summary](../verapdf/2027-03-09-budget-hearing-agenda-intake/e70ac9ce.json)

- Clause 5, test 1: The PDF/UA version and conformance level of a file shall be specified using the PDF/UA Identification extension schema (failed checks: 1)
- Clause 6.2, test 1: The document catalog dictionary shall include a MarkInfo dictionary containing an entry, Marked, whose value shall be true (failed checks: 1)
- Clause 7.1, test 10: The document catalog dictionary shall include a ViewerPreferences dictionary containing a DisplayDocTitle key, whose value shall be true (failed checks: 1)
- Clause 7.1, test 11: The logical structure of the conforming file shall be described by a structure hierarchy rooted in the StructTreeRoot entry of the document catalog dictionary, as described in ISO 32000-1:2008, 14.7 (failed checks: 1)
- Clause 7.1, test 3: Content shall be marked as Artifact or tagged as real content (failed checks: 14)

## After

Result: pass

PDF sha256: 4e8fea0cb0203b3daf03094088c2b79b0b0619bc0887f9e70f59f7affade1501

Rules: 106 passed, 0 failed. Checks: 2839 passed, 0 failed.

[veraPDF summary](../verapdf/2027-03-09-budget-hearing-agenda/46177769.json)

[Structure evidence](../structure/2027-03-09-budget-hearing-agenda/46177769.md)

## Authored remediation steps

1. Extracted the text from the received PDF into structured DocumentSource YAML.
2. Marked the section headings as level-2 headings under the title.
3. Rebuilt the run-in item list as an ordered list.
4. Rebuilt the hearing schedule as a data table with a caption, column headers and row headers.
5. Rebuilt the PDF with the PDF/UA-1 pipeline (tags, title, language, bookmarks, artifacts) and an HTML view from the same source.