⚠26 April 2027 — ADA Title II (state & local government)·11 May 2027 — Section 504 (HHS-funded)
Your PDF library has to be accessible by 2027.
Agendas, minutes, permit applications, tax protest forms — every published PDF must
meet WCAG 2.1 AA. Most public entities have thousands, and no idea which ones are a
problem. We tell you exactly, then fix what can be fixed automatically.
We ran this on a US county's published document library — 140 documents, 1,803
pages, nothing hand-picked. Every figure below is measured by
veraPDF, the reference open-source validator your
auditor would use, not by our own tooling.
Failed checks
732,765
before remediation
After
25,526
96.5% resolved
Median document
98.4%
of its failures resolved
Made worse
0
never ship a regression
41 of those documents came out fully conformant. A quarter of the library was scanned images — unreadable to a screen reader no matter
how it is tagged. Those needed OCR before anything else was worth doing. Knowing that
split up front is the difference between a bid that makes money and one that does not.
What the scan tells you
Tier
Docs
Pages
What it means
Needs OCR
34
440
Scanned images; no text to tag
Mixed
7
782
Tagging, plus OCR for some pages
Full tagging
30
331
Real text, no structure
Metadata only
69
250
Already tagged; cheap to finish
How it works
Free scan. We crawl your public document library — rate-limited, robots-aware, nothing behind a login — and send you a report showing exactly which documents fail and why.
Fixed-price quote. Priced from the tier split, so you know what you are buying before anyone signs anything.
Remediation. OCR where there is no text layer, then headings, reading order, lists, tables, form field labels and image descriptions.
Verification. Every document is validated before and after. You get the numbers and the files.
Ongoing. New agendas and minutes go out every week. The backlog is the project; keeping up is the service.
What we will tell you that others will not
Automated remediation cannot certify compliance, and anyone who says otherwise is selling you risk.
We fix machine-checkable failures. PDF/UA also has requirements no validator can test —
whether a heading is the right heading, whether reading order matches intent,
whether an image description is accurate. Those need a person, and our pricing
says so out loud.
A scanned page tagged as a picture passes every automated check and still gives a screen reader nothing. We treat that as unfinished, not as a pass.
Some documents cannot be fixed at all. In that county library, three quarters of everything still failing is a font defect baked into the source files. We say so up front rather than at delivery.
We never ship a document we made worse. Every candidate is validated; if remediation degrades a file, you get the original back and a note explaining why.
Overlays do not work. The DOJ cited the limits of automated remediation when it extended the deadline, and the FTC has taken action against overlay vendors. We are not one.
Who this is for
Counties, cities, school districts, special districts, and any organisation receiving
HHS funding. If you publish PDFs to the public and you are covered by ADA Title II or
Section 504, the deadline applies to you.