PDF Accessibility Testing and Monitoring

Discover and test a single PDF—or high volumes of digital documents—evaluating the accessibility of each.

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Users’ Needs. Legal Requirements.

You may have thousands—or even tens of thousands—of PDFs. If those digital documents aren’t accessible for people with disabilities, you’ve created barriers for your users—and you’re compromising your organization’s legal compliance. Tightening global regulations, like ADA Title II, the EAA, HHS and others, require PDF accessibility.

Allyant’s powerful suite of PDF accessibility testing tools enables organizations to discover, test, monitor, and maintain PDF accessibility—whether one document or thousands.

And it starts with a scan.

Scanning Solutions for Every Use Case.

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    CommonLook PDF Validator

    Use our free Adobe Acrobat Pro plugin to test the accessibility of individual PDFs. CommonLook Validator will examine things like metadata, embedded fonts, tagging, headings, alt text, links—including broken links—tables, and more. Reports will reveal what’s causing accessibility barriers, and you get a certification report for each tested document.

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    CommonLook Clarity

    Automatically—and continuously—scan your enterprise organization’s website, intranet, portal, or repository, discovering large volumes of PDFs and testing each one of them for accessibility with CommonLook Clarity. Comprehensive reports provide an overview of all PDFs as well as the accessibility status of each for easy identification of non-compliant documents. And you can leverage the Clarity API to prevent inaccessible content from being published prior to testing.

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    The Allyant Platform

    Leverage the Allyant Platform to test the accessibility of your entire digital experience, including web content, web-based solutions, and discover and test your embedded PDFs. All with a single system, all in a single scan. Robust, real-time reporting categorizes accessibility issues based on their severity, helping you prioritize the work ahead.

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Scanning is Just the Start.

PDF accessibility scanning and testing will help you understand the scope of the problem, but to meet compliance requirements, remediation is the critical next step.

And there are two ways you can tackle PDF accessibility: let us do the work for you, or use our industry-leading CommonLook PDF software to do the work yourself.

Let us Remediate

Leaning on Allyant’s team to do the work is one of the fastest, highest-impact ways in which you can accelerate accessibility to meet compliance obligations.

Our leaders have more than 20 years in the PDF remediation business. They actively participate on the governing boards and working groups that advise on the international PDF accessibility standards—including WCAG and PDF/UA.

Our remediation team is the largest in the world, and can take any volume of PDFs, remediate them, return them within five business days, and deliver a 100% conformance guarantee with each PDF we fix.

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Remediate Yourself

Manage the accessibility of your PDFs as you go with our industry-leading CommonLook software. Our PDF accessibility software plugin for Adobe Acrobat streamlines the journey toward compliance, providing a comprehensive environment for testing, remediating, and verifying documents.

CommonLook PDF delivers faster and more efficient outcomes than relying solely on Adobe Acrobat, and is listed in the W3C’s PDF Techniques for WCAG.

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Simple, Seamless Document Accessibility with Allyant.

PDF accessibility is a legal requirement, but with countless PDFs, doing the work may seem overwhelming. Allyant’s industry-leading and proprietary PDF accessibility testing solutions will help you scan and scope the breadth of the problem, with software and services to support meeting compliance obligations.

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Frequently Asked Questions.

Addressing accessibility on a large quantity of PDFs can feel overwhelming. Once you understand the scope of the problem, approach accessibility as an ongoing journey, prioritizing highest-impact work first:

  1. Evaluate whether your team has the capacity and understanding to remediate these documents or if outsourcing the work to experts is the more efficient, cost-effective option.
  2. Identify accessibility services providers that have intuitive software tools or that offer remediation services to support large quantities of documents.
  3. If using software, ensure your team has access to the proper training and support.
  4. Prioritize remediation of your most frequently accessed PDFs, and then work through your backlog, ensuring every document that is required to be accessible is prioritized in your queue.

Allyant offers a suite of software tools and services that can locate, identify, report on, validate, remediate, automate, and most importantly—guarantee 100% accessibility compliance for PDFs.

Depending on your document use case and workflow, we may offer a hybrid approach of both software and services solutions to support ongoing PDF accessibility and compliance efforts

Yes. An accessibility solution provider should offer a single-source solution that not only tests and monitors the accessibility of your PDFs but also scans for any embedded PDFs, including those embedded within your website content, as well as your website content itself.

The Allyant Platform contains powerful, proprietary scanning capabilities that will test the accessibility of web content, as well as identify all embedded PDFs, and—uniquely—test each of those PDFs for accessibility.

If you’d like to see how it works, engage our team today.