About Ockem

We build software that proves accessibility work is done.

Ockem is Base22’s product company. Proof, our first product, finds, fixes and certifies the PDFs organizations publish. Read and Audit come next.

Our story

From a client project to a product.

Base22 has made digital services accessible for public institutions for years. Proof is what we built to do it at the scale of a whole website.

2007
Base22 is founded
A digital experience studio, today with 50+ clients and 230+ client engagements (Base22’s own figures).
May 2026
600+ documents for New Mexico
Base22 remediates the New Mexico Department of Health’s public PDFs in one month, from 2,000+ WCAG 2.1 AA issues to zero. Proof’s early checks and fixers carry the mechanical work.
July 2026
Certificates anyone can verify
Every certified document gets a public verification page.
August 2026
A whole library through the automated pass overnight
1,756 public-sector documents, 28,224 pages, in 26.9 hours, unattended. People then work through the decisions software can’t make.
October 2026
42 automated fixers
Each one re-checked after it runs, with judgment calls routed to people.

Commitments

Automation handles the mechanical work. Judgment calls go to a person, and the certificate says who attested them.

No vacuous passes. A check that couldn’t run stays pending, and our numbers carry their basis and date.

Inference runs on hardware we operate. Documents you upload never train a model unless you say so.

We check this site against WCAG 2.2 AA and publish an accessibility statement with anything we haven’t fixed yet.

Built by Base22

Base22 designs and builds accessible digital services for the public sector and the enterprise. base22.com (opens an external site)

Questions about a large library, procurement or a security review.