PDF Accessibility Remediation Services
Let our experts remediate your PDFs, ensuring accessibility and compliance—with each document backed by our 100% conformance guarantee.
Accelerate Compliance.
You may have hundreds, if not thousands of PDFs—including countless documents embedded throughout your website. Finding and fixing every document to make sure it’s accessible could take your team months—if not years.
Accelerate your accessibility and compliance with our expert PDF remediation services. With more than 20 years remediating PDFs, our service will kick-start your compliance by identifying and fixing every PDF you send. We then return accessible documents to you within five business days, and each one comes with a 100% conformance guarantee.
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Details Matter.
Our PDF accessibility remediation process is thoughtful and thorough—from discovery to QA to conformance documentation.
Our team:
- Scans, identifies, and fixes accessibility issues in document holdings.
- Reviews and corrects the logical structure of the file.
- Checks and corrects tables, including tagging/redesigning complex tables.
- Reviews and creates alternative text if necessary.
- Fixes the content order view to enhance its use on mobile devices.
- Reviews, verifies, and fixes script functionality.
- Reviews form elements and addresses accessibility issues.
- Tests each document with one or more tags-aware assistive technologies.
- Ensures the document passes Adobe’s Acrobat Accessibility Checker.
- Provides a Section 508 or a WCAG AA conformance certificate for each document.
Streamlined and Secure.
Not only is our PDF accessibility remediation service streamlined and efficient, we adhere to the highest standards of security, integrity, and confidentiality to protect your organization and your customers’ information. Our processes are HIPPA, Soc 2 Type 2, PCI-DSS and NIST certified.
Frequently Asked Questions
In the context of accessibility, PDF accessibility remediation refers to the process of making the document accessible for a user with a disability who is reliant upon an assistive technology—like a screen reader—to interact with that digital content.
At a high level, PDF accessibility remediation involves properly tagging content (headings, paragraphs, etc.) to establish a logical structure, ensuring the content reads in the correct order, creating descriptive or alternative text for images, utilizing proper color contrast, and more.
You can read more about PDF remediation in our blog What is PDF Remediation?
Many global laws require accessibility for all digital content—including PDFs. These laws include the ADA, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, the European Accessibility Act—or EAA—Canada’s AODA and others. In order to meet legal compliance requirements, PDFs must be made accessible.
But beyond compliance requirements, it’s important to create, publish, and make available content that any user can engage with—including those users who are blind, color blind, or who have low vision.
PDF accessibility remediation can require a high-level of technical expertise, but there are software tools on the market that simplify the process, including or CommonLook PDF software suite.
Remediation steps depend on the software or tools used, but at a high level should include:
- Properly tagging content (headings, paragraphs, table structures, etc.) to establish a logical structure
- Ensuring the content reads in the correct order
- Creating descriptive or alternative text for images
- Utilizing proper color contrast
- Making sure form fields are properly labeled
The answer in many cases may be both. Organizations that only have a few PDFs or are generating relatively low volumes of documents may acquire end-user software, like our CommonLook PDF, to empower their teams to create accessible PDFs and remediate any existing documents. However, your organization may also have an overwhelming backlog of PDFs that need to be addressed. In that case, PDF remediation services may be the fastest, lowest-risk option to ensure full compliance.
Allyant will work with you to identify which solution, or combination of solutions best meet your need, budget, and timeline.
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The cost of PDF remediation is directly related to the quality of the remediation work completed.
Some vendors will offer a low-cost solution, but the quality of remediation may be lacking—elevating your organization’s legal compliance risk.
A vendor you choose should demonstrate expertise in the legal compliance and PDF accessibility standards space, as well as back each remediated PDF with a 100% conformance guarantee.
Questions to ask your vendor:
- What accessibility standards do you test against?
- How can you ensure the PDFs you deliver are accessible and compliant?
- How will I know what work has been done on each PDF you remediate?
- How quickly can I expect you to return remediated PDFs?
Allyant’s PDF remediation services team is the largest, most experienced team in the world, with leadership actively participating in the working groups that establish the ongoing standards for PDF accessibility. Every document we remediate comes with a 100% conformance guarantee, along with a conformance report that details the work completed—down to each individual tag. We regularly serve highly regulated industries with strict service-level agreements, and we can deliver fully accessible and compliant documents within five business days.
