This release delivers meaningful improvements to the accessibility authoring experience in Grackle PDF, with a focus on stronger compliance validation, smarter auto-tagging, and faster bulk remediation for complex documents.
Highlights
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Complete WCAG Validator Coverage
- Grackle PDF now supports the full set of WCAG 2.2 checkpoints in the built-in validator, giving authors a single, trusted source of truth for accessibility compliance — no more jumping between tools to confirm a document is ready to publish.
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Bulk Actual Text Assignment
- Remediating complex or image-heavy documents is now dramatically faster. Users can mass-select tags across spanning elements and apply Actual Text in a single action, cutting the time required for large documents down significantly.
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Smarter AutoTagger
- AutoTagger has been tuned to handle more of the real-world document variations our customers see every day — including lists with unusual bullet characters and documents that previously produced empty tag trees. Authors get usable, accurate structure on the first pass more often.
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Better Table Authoring
- Improvements to table creation, grouping, ID highlighting, and scope handling make it easier to build and correct accessible tables — especially when bringing documents back from Acrobat workflows.
Reliability & Polish
- Fixed an issue that prevented certain large or complex PDFs from opening.
- Resolved an auto-update problem that was blocking some users from receiving the latest build.
- Preserved full author metadata when saving files (previously truncated at semicolons).
- Corrected a spelling error in the Scan and Fix validator.
- Addressed a cluster of regressions introduced in an earlier 1.3.205.x build.
Who Benefits
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Accessibility professionals
- Complete WCAG 2.2 validator coverage and more reliable AutoTagger output
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Document remediators
- Bulk Actual Text assignment and improved table tooling for faster turnaround
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All users
- A more stable, polished application with smoother updates
