Document Engineering

Document engineering is the discipline concerned with the principles, tools, and processes for creating, managing, transforming, and presenting documents in ways that optimise their use across different contexts and audiences. In accessibility, document engineering encompasses the structural markup, semantic annotation, and content adaptation techniques that make documents accessible to assistive technologies. This includes practices such as proper heading hierarchies, alternative text for images, accessible PDF creation, web content transformation, and automatic summarisation — all of which aim to ensure that document content can be effectively consumed regardless of the user's abilities or the technology they use.