CommonLook PDF:
PDF Accessibility Software

Simple. Smart. Scalable.

Allyant’s industry-leading, AI-powered CommonLook PDF software brings PDF accessibility to everyone, everywhere, enabling your organization to quickly meet PDF compliance requirements of ADA Title II, Section 508, HHS, EAA, and others.

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CommonLook PDF Accessibility Software is:

  • Easy

    AI-driven with an advanced or simplified editor.

  • Everywhere

    Web-based access or downloadable for desktop.

  • Economical

    Powerful tools accelerate progress while cutting costs.

  • Established

    Built on decades of PDF accessibility leadership.

Backed by Expertise. Built for Efficiency.

PDF accessibility has long been considered complex work. Until now. Allyant’s CommonLook PDF software makes PDF accessibility and compliance simple, smart, and scalable. It’s the brand that’s been trusted by tens of thousands of customers for decades—built by the leaders who help write the global standards for PDF accessibility—designed for users of every ability.

  • AI-driven tools automatically tag documents, accelerating progress at the push of a button. Users have the flexibility to choose between an advanced editor or a simplified editor—based on technical understanding and PDF complexity.

  • And CommonLook PDF is available everywhere you work—any browser and any operating system. Or you can download the software directly to your desktop, based on organizational needs.

Edit Your Way: Advanced or Simplified.

The beauty of CommonLook PDF is that it supports technical and non-technical users alike. Our simplified editor removes much of the complexity of PDF accessibility, opening remediation to non-technical users—accelerating progress with an intuitive interface. And our advanced path supports practitioners who are more familiar with complex elements on more technical documents.

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Conformance and Compliance Validation.

CommonLook PDF supports multiple accessibility standards, including PDF/UA, WCAG, and HHS to ensure your organization complies with laws like Section 508, ADA Title II, EAA, and others. And each accessible PDF comes with a unique Validation Report, downloadable at any time, capturing document information; the number of passed, failed, and warning issues; and detailed results.

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Standout Software Features.

  • Advanced or Simplified Editing  

    Choose between a more advanced editor for practitioners, or a simplified, more intuitive tool based on experience and PDF complexity.

  • AI-Driven Automated Tagging and Remediation 

    It supports structural validation based on ISO 32000-1:2008, ensuring documents are structurally sound, a prerequisite for accessibility.

  • Manual Tagging Support  

    Leverage powerful prompts and tooling to more quickly and easily remediate issues that require manual review.

  • Fix Wizard 

    Follow system guidance to quickly and easily fix identified accessibility and structural issues.

  • Automated Bookmark Generation

    Enhance navigation and usability with automatic bookmark generation—based on structural heading levels.

  • Multi-Standards Validation 

    Ensure documents conform with a selected standard including WCAG, PDF/UA, and   HHS to comply with Section 508 and other laws.

  • Structural Validation 

    Validate whether a DF follows the quality metrics of the ISO 32000-1:2008 standards, ensuring your document can be accessed and viewed properly.

  • Comprehensive Reporting  

    Document adherence to accessibility and compliance with comprehensive reports, detailing checkpoints that must be adhered to in order to meet the applicable standard.

  • System of Record

    Track the remediation history of documents over time, remove older files, and download accessible PDFs with their corresponding Validation Report.

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PDF Accessibility and Compliance with Allyant.

Whether you have one PDF or hundreds, Allyant’s market-leading CommonLook PDF accessibility software supports users of every ability, anywhere they work.

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Frequently Asked Questions.

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 AODA, the EAA, and others.

Yes, CommonLook PDF can be accessed via any operating system—including MacOS—and is accessible from any browser. This flexibility provides users the convenience of remediating PDFs from anywhere they work.

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?

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.