diff --git a/assignment_template/text.tex b/assignment_template/text.tex
index 1951ed7..4db2885 100644
--- a/assignment_template/text.tex
+++ b/assignment_template/text.tex
@@ -1,9 +1,24 @@
+% memoir is currently incompatible with the LaTeX tagged-PDF code, so we
+% load just the PDF management layer (for metadata). When memoir support
+% lands upstream, swap this block for the commented-out \DocumentMetadata +
+% tagpdf lines below. See https://github.com/latex3/tagging-project/issues/910
+\RequirePackage{pdfmanagement-testphase}
+\DeclareDocumentMetadata{lang=en-US,pdfversion=2.0}
+
+% \DocumentMetadata{
+%   pdfversion=2.0,
+%   pdfstandard=ua-2,
+%   lang=en-US,
+% }
+
 \documentclass[12pt]{memoir}
 
 % article-1 and article-2 styles were originally based on kieran healy's
 % templates
 \usepackage{mako-mem}
 \chapterstyle{article-2}
+% \usepackage{tagpdf}
+% \tagpdfsetup{activate-all}
 
 % with article-3 \chapterstyle, change to: \pagestyle{memo}
 \pagestyle{mako-mem}
@@ -28,7 +43,9 @@
 \usepackage[breaklinks]{hyperref}
 
 \hypersetup{colorlinks=true, linkcolor=Black, citecolor=Black, filecolor=Blue,
-    urlcolor=Blue, unicode=true}
+    urlcolor=Blue, unicode=true,
+    pdflang={en-US},
+    pdfdisplaydoctitle=true}
 
 % add bibliographic stuff 
 % memoir function to take out of the space out of the whitespace lists
diff --git a/paper_template/text.tex b/paper_template/text.tex
index 7a330d4..c4f1d02 100644
--- a/paper_template/text.tex
+++ b/paper_template/text.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,21 @@
+% memoir is currently incompatible with the LaTeX tagged-PDF code, so we
+% load just the PDF management layer (for metadata). When memoir support
+% lands upstream, swap this block for the commented-out \DocumentMetadata +
+% tagpdf lines below. See https://github.com/latex3/tagging-project/issues/910
+\RequirePackage{pdfmanagement-testphase}
+\DeclareDocumentMetadata{lang=en-US,pdfversion=2.0}
+
+% \DocumentMetadata{
+%   pdfversion=2.0,
+%   pdfstandard=ua-2,
+%   lang=en-US,
+% }
+
 \documentclass[12pt]{memoir}
 
 \usepackage{cdsc-memoir}
+% \usepackage{tagpdf}
+% \tagpdfsetup{activate-all}
 % there are two chapter styles: cdsc-article and cdsc-memo
 % memo assumes that you remove the "\\" and the email address from the
 % \author field below as well as that you will comment out the
@@ -28,7 +43,9 @@
 \usepackage[breaklinks]{hyperref}
 
 \hypersetup{colorlinks=true, linkcolor=Black, citecolor=Black, filecolor=Blue,
-    urlcolor=Blue, unicode=true}
+    urlcolor=Blue, unicode=true,
+    pdflang={en-US},
+    pdfdisplaydoctitle=true}
 
 % list of footnote symbols for \thanks{}
 \makeatletter