diff --git a/slides_template/example.tex b/slides_template/example.tex
index 34c4bfd..e55cdfd 100644
--- a/slides_template/example.tex
+++ b/slides_template/example.tex
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 \DocumentMetadata{
+  pdfstandard=ua-2,
   pdfversion=2.0,
   lang=en-US,
 }
@@ -161,6 +162,10 @@ BoldItalicFont  =   *-BoldItalic
 % \hypersetup{colorlinks=true, linkcolor=Black, citecolor=Black, filecolor=makopurple1,
 %     urlcolor=Plum, unicode=true}
 
+% assistive software should announce the document title rather than the
+% filename; PDF/UA requires this to be set explicitly
+\hypersetup{pdfdisplaydoctitle=true}
+
 % create a new \e{} command to make things purple and bold
 % (falls back to \textit{} on standout slides where alert color is invisible)
 \newcommand{\e}[1]{%