Automate the work.
Control the details.

Yes. The built-in Tag Editor ($50/month, cancel anytime) lets you refine the tag structure yourself: fix reading order, tables, lists, headings and alt text against the live page view, run built-in PDF/UA checks with a screen-reader preview, then apply the changes back into the PDF and re-validate, with no per-page charges on editor runs. It is the alternative to outsourcing manual remediation at $4 to $11.50 per page.

Yes, automatically. When a document has image-only pages (paper scans, faxed forms, old archives), AccessiblePDF runs OCR during processing to give those pages a real text layer, then tags and remediates them like any other document. Many remediation tools require you to OCR files before uploading; here it is built in, detected per document, and included in the same $0.50 per page. No separate OCR product, no extra step.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that information be usable by people with disabilities, and that includes the PDFs you publish or send. In practice, courts and the U.S. Department of Justice treat the WCAG guidelines as the yardstick. A PDF counts as accessible when it is properly tagged, has alternative text for images, a correct reading order, a document title and language, and passes an accessibility checker. AccessiblePDF remediates your PDFs to the PDF-applicable parts of WCAG 2.1 AA and includes validation results. It is automated remediation that you should still review before publishing.

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires U.S. federal agencies, and the vendors who supply them, to make electronic documents accessible. The 2018 Refresh adopts WCAG 2.0 Level AA as the technical baseline. For a PDF that means tagged structure (headings, lists, tables), alt text, a logical reading order, a document title and language, and bookmarks for longer files. AccessiblePDF tags and remediates PDFs for Section 508 and WCAG, and gives you validation results you can hand to your 508 coordinator.

WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2.1 is the international standard from the W3C, and Level AA is the conformance level most laws and procurement rules reference. For fixed-layout PDFs, the PDF-applicable subset of WCAG 2.1 AA covers structure, alt text, color contrast, reading order, language, and titling; a few criteria like reflow do not apply to PDFs. AccessiblePDF remediates to that subset and validates every file.

ADA Title II covers state and local governments. In 2024 the DOJ issued a rule setting WCAG 2.1 Level AA as the required standard for their websites and digital documents, with compliance deadlines in 2026 and 2027 depending on population size. That makes remediating existing PDF archives a near-term priority for agencies and their contractors. AccessiblePDF is built for exactly that: bulk PDF remediation at a flat $0.50 per page, with no quote forms.

Yes. Every file AccessiblePDF remediates comes with an itemized, plain-English summary of what changed (tags and reading order, alt text, document title and language, bookmarks, and font/Unicode fixes) mapped to the WCAG success criteria each step targets, plus before-and-after validation results so you or your auditor can verify it independently.

The industry-standard tools are veraPDF and PAC (the PDF Accessibility Checker), which test against PDF/UA and the WCAG criteria. AccessiblePDF runs validation on every document and shows you the findings before and after, so you have evidence on hand. As with any automated remediation, we recommend a human review before you publish.