PDF Accessibility Software Suite

Keep up with PDF accessibility and compliance requirements with our industry-leading CommonLook accessibility software suite.

Do-it-Yourself PDF Accessibility.

Our market-leading CommonLook PDF accessibility software is the industry standard for do-it-yourself PDF remediation. Robust tools enable users to create, test, remediate, and verify the accessibility of PDFs—whether they have a simple structure or are more complex with forms and tables.

  • Cost Reduction: With tools to create accessible PDFs, CommonLook PDF helps organizations minimize compliance costs associated with PDF accessibility.
  • Capacity Building: Our software empowers organizations to build internal capacity, enabling them to meet the rising demand for accessible PDFs.
  • Guided Compliance: User-friendly features guide users through accessibility checkpoints within each document, ensuring critical criteria are continuously met.
  • Continuous Improvement: Users can access training resources to enhance their document remediation skills and advance their knowledge of accessibility compliance.

CommonLook PDF Accessibility Software Features.

  • Multi-Standards Validation

    Ensure conformance with a selected standard, including PDF/UA, WCAG, and HHS.

  • Powerful Tools

    Time-saving tools for working with tags, tables, lists, and tables of contents, simplifying remediation tasks.

  • Tagging Workflow

    Verify and correct tagging order and semantics within a workflow, enhancing document accessibility.

  • Structural Alerts

    Properly structure tables, lists, and tables of contents to help you organize your document properly.

  • Structural Validation

    Validate the structure of your PDF file based on ISO 32000-1:2008 standard. This ensures that your document can be accessed and viewed properly.

  • Checkpoint Verification

    Verify the output of PDF files in accordance with each accessibility checkpoint, ensuring compliance with standards.

  • Comprehensive Reports

    Generate detailed checkpoint-by-checkpoint, element-by-element reports accepted by HHS and other authorities, simplifying documentation.

  • Automatic Bookmark Generation

    Supports automatic bookmark generation based on heading levels, enhancing document navigation and accessibility.

Accessible PDFs from Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

Easily generate accessible and compliant PDF files from Microsoft Word (doc, docx) and PowerPoint (PPT, PPTX) with CommonLook Office. It’s software that surpasses the native accessible PDF functionality found in the Microsoft Office suite. CommonLook Office identifies and assists in resolving accessibility issues, automating basic tasks, and guiding users through more complex fixes to ensure compliance with Section 508, HHS, ADA Title II and more.

  • User friendly

    Get step-by-step instructions guiding the user through accessibility checkpoints.

  • Style mapping

    Efficiently manage style usage and mapping to PDF tags, ensuring consistent accessibility.

     

  • Table accessibility

    Correct tagging for simple, complex, or presentation-style tables.

  • Conformance guarantee

    Receive conformance verification for WCAG or PDF/UA standards.

High Volume? No Problem.

Our AI-driven automated accessibility solutionscan con vert large quantities of templated PDFs into accessible formats—with ease. This includes recurring documents like credit card statements, utility bills, healthcare provider directories, enrollment forms, and more. And, our solution can aggregate information from different data sources and Customer Communication Management Systems (CCM).

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Let us do the PDF Accessibility Work.

If your backlog of inaccessible PDFs is bogging you down, engage our PDF remediation services team [NM1] to deliver accessible and compliant PDFs in five business days, with a 100% conformance guarantee. And then use our renowned CommonLook PDF accessibility software to keep up with compliance requirements as you create new documents.

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Simple, Seamless PDF Accessibility with Allyant.

Leverage Allyant’s industry-leading CommonLook PDF accessibility software suite, or our renowned remediation team, to meet ongoing PDF compliance requirements, ensuring you deliver documents that are accessible, and usable, for all.

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Frequently Asked Questions.

Allyant’s CommonLook PDF accessibility software suite is the industry-leading PDF accessibility tool to create accessible PDFs or fix existing documents faster than existing market tools.

CommonLook will also verify remediation work conforms with global accessibility standards like PDF/UA or WCAG 2.2 AA.

The CommonLook PDF accessibility software suite is an on-prem plugin to Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Yes, Allyant offers live and on-demand training sessions for our industry-leading CommonLook PDF accessibility software. Trainings will ensure your team has the knowledge and skillsets necessary to create accessible and compliant PDFs. We also offer anytime access to our Knowledge Base—a library of helpful articles built on decades of accessibility expertise.

Learn more about our training program, including access to a monthly calendar of courses.

Automation—including advancements in artificial intelligence—can accelerate progress. However, automation on its own is not advanced enough to make variable, or complex content accessible and compliant according to the requirements of global standards like WCAG and PDF/UA. As such, automation-only tools typically do not deliver a conformance guarantee, which is important documentation for your organization’s compliance efforts.

You can read more about it in our blog Can AI make PDFs accessible?

Allyant’s CommonLook PDF accessibility software has built-in testing and tools to support meeting conformance standards of the web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG), PDF/UA, and HHS, in order to meet compliance requirements of laws like Section 508, the ADA, the AODE, the EAA, and others.

Yes. Allyant’s high-volume solutions incorporate the highest standards of PDF accessibility into templated or standardized documents like credit card and bank statements, utility and telecom invoices, tax forms, medical bills and forms, healthcare provider directories, and more.

To learn how Allyant can support your high-volume remediation work, request time with our team.