Document accessibility is an important requisite in today’s world for ensuring that everyone has equal access to information. It is not just about following the legal mandate behind it, but also ensuring that every individual, irrespective of their abilities has access to and right understanding of information, which matters to them.
Acadecraft is dedicated to fostering inclusivity through the creation of accessible documents. Moreover, we understand it is important for businesses and organizations to convey the right message within the organization to employees, stakeholders, and consumers. Organizations must comply with guidelines by ADA, WCAG 2.0, and Section 508 to ensure the accessibility of documents, especially to those with disabilities. Document accessibility, in this way, ensures the empowerment of communities, individuals, and society in general by allowing equal access to information.
Our experts guide through assessment, planning, implementation, and support.
A document is considered accessible when it can be accessed and its informative content is understood by everyone, irrespective of their disabilities. Businesses and organizations must create accessible documents. Failing to do so can lead to penalties and business or reputation loss. That is why organizations require document remediation for accessibility and ensure that their documents in any format are accessible and compatible with assistive technology, for use by people with disabilities of hearing, vision, or cognition.
We provide document remediation services with a customized approach to helping organizations realize their accessibility goals, remediating document accessibility in all formats—-PDFs, Word (Docx), PowerPoint Presentations (PPTs), and Excel.
Our work for ensuring Document accessibility includes, but is not limited to the following:
Acadecraft document accessibility experts help in the creation and remediation of existing documents to make them accessible. We remediate all formats of documents for accessibility, for example, Word, PDF, HTML, PPT, and Excel. We adhere to the best practices for document remediation for compliance with section 508, ADA, WCAG 2.0, and other guidelines of different countries and specific regions.
These are some ways and best practices we follow to ensure ADA document remediation.
Acadecraft’s document accessibility team follows key accessibility guidelines for the remediation of different types of document formats. We adhere to WCAG standards, Sector 508 and ADA guidelines, PDF (U/A), and AODA, and more. Our experts verify and remediate the documents. We correct document readability, structuring, metadata, hyperlink text, list formats, color contrast, and alt text for non-visuals, and enable document content reading and recognition by assistive technology.
Digital PDFs should be accessible, and comply with requirements of Section 508, ADA and AODA, and WCAG 2.0 and more to ensure inclusivity to all their users, including those with disabilities. Adhering to guidelines, we remediate the accessibility of PDFs by:
In the end, we ensure checking accessibility of documents and WCAG, and ADA compliance to ensure PDFs are inclusive for all.
Our docx accessibility remediation experts ensure all your Word documents are fully accessible and understandable to all users, including people with disabilities. We identify and remediate the document’s accessibility barriers, including
Acadecraft’s accessibility team ensures fully accessible docx elements guaranteeing Compliance with Section 508, ADA, WCAG 2.0, PDF U/A, and more to empower all users, including those with disabilities so that they can access, understand, and interact with your content.
Microsoft Excel accessibility barriers may originate from the document interface design, which often presents navigation challenges for assistive technology. We appropriately remediate Excel document spreadsheets to make them accessible for all users, including people with disabilities. Things we do to remediate Excel accessibility:
Acadecraft’s Excel Accessibility experts perform multi-tier reviews to ensure that all your Excel documents are compliant with the accessibility requirements of Section 508, WCAG, ADA, and more.
Acadecraft provides PowerPoint presentations with a customized approach considering your organization’s unique business and accessibility goals. Our PPT accessibility remediation services ensure that your presentations are fully accessible and understandable to all users, especially people with disabilities. Our work involves:
Acadecraft ensures ADA document remediation and can accept large volumes of work to keep you tension-free.
A better user experience results from an accessible document. It enhances your brand image and presents you as a business that cares for the world community. It gives rise to user satisfaction and improves brand value.
It is mandatory for organizations to create accessible documents compliant with WCAG 2.0 guidelines, ADA, and Section 508 guidelines to ensure document accessibility to reach all concerned, including those with visual, hearing, or cognitive disabilities. Failing this may lead to penalties, business loss, and undesirable consequences.
A significant size of the population with visual, hearing, or cognitive disabilities to various extents are a vital part of the world’s economic circle. Accessibility ensures all your prospects, regardless of disabilities can find you.
We provide customized document accessibility solutions to organizations tailored to their unique requirements.
With our vast team of document remediation services experts, we provide quick delivery of your work within the agreed schedule.
Acadecraft has strict policies for ensuring encryption of data and document information. Rest assured; your accessible documents come with all security controls in place.
We provide alternative accessible versions for your accessible document, ensuring higher inclusivity and easier understanding by all users.
Our accessibility experts work in a multi-tier approach for reviews and ensuring accessibility of documents complying with Section 508, ADA, and EN-301, meeting all AODA and CMS Final Rule requirements, and more.
We have your back at all times with our 24/7 support to ensure that all your accessibility solutions are up-to-date with the latest accessibility guidelines and standards.
Our team of accessibility experts are dedicated professionals with a keen eye on the details of each document. They carry out checks to identify, remediate, and fix the accessibility barriers with a multistep approach to guarantee 100% compliance with accessibility requirements.
Acadecraft adheres to strict quality assurance checks to ensure document accessibility that matches the highest standards. Our experts with disabilities will review the documents after multitier manual and automated checks to give a final confirmation that accessibility standards are met, ensuring inclusivity for all users.
The first step is the assessment and evaluation of accessibility barriers. As we receive a document submission—PDFs, Word, Excel, or PowerPoint— our experts assess your unique needs and give a quote.
Upon your approval, the implementation of recommendations for removing accessibility barriers is done with a seamless process involving several automated and manual reviews.
We have in place strong quality checks in multi-tier reviews. The finalized documents are reviewed by our experts with disabilities to ensure the document is truly accessible to all users fostering inclusivity and compliance.
Post delivery, we ensure complete support to ensure satisfaction on your part to get a document compliant with the latest standards of WCAG 2.0, Section 508, ADA, and any other country-wise or regional standards of compliance.
Publishing companies have immense document accessibility loads and requirements. They are decaying with various formats of documents such as PDFs, Word docs, Excel sheets, and more for different types of material like handbooks, flyers, brochures, handbooks, research papers, and more. It is important for publishing companies to ensure that such documents are accessible to all users, including those with disabilities. We have served publishing companies for years and helped them achieve international accessibility standards for their documents in different formats.
The finance and banking sector requires not only adhering to compliance standards but also maintaining client data confidentiality through appropriate encryption of data. We have placed strict confidentiality guidelines in our processes for accessibility remediation. While on one hand, we can help transform complex financial data into simple to understandable forms, we also ensure all the work is delivered to them as per your company’s guidelines, confidentiality requirements, and accessibility goals. For the insurance sector, we work to make ANOCs, SOBs, and EOCs accessible while enhancing transparency.
We have served the healthcare sector for years ensuring that their diverse documents are successfully remediated alongside HIPAA compliance, fostering patient data confidentiality, and complying with Section 508 compliance standards. The healthcare sector generates loads of documents that require meeting accessibility requirements. We can handle the high loads of making documents in different formats compatible with healthcare organizations while they focus on core work. Our accessibility experts make your healthcare documents compliant, transparent, and accessible for users with disabilities.
Government organizations have daily dealings involving reports, forms, handbooks, pamphlets, and more. All of them must be Section 508, ADA, and WCAG 2.0 compliant. It fosters inclusivity for all users and public members, regardless of their disabilities. We specialize in the dissemination of government information to the relevant users ensuring transparency and complete compliance.
Being established as one of the leading digital accessibility services providers, Acadecraft’s document accessibility team specializes in serving non-profit organizations for their unique accessibility needs. We offer comprehensive document accessibility solutions and services to NPOs guaranteeing compliance with WCAG, ADA, Section 508, and more as per regional or country-wise specific requirements.
Yes, we offer document accessibility remediation services for non-English documents, adhering to specific document accessibility standards of the respective language or country.
Acadecraft can accept all kinds of document formats to make them accessible, guaranteeing full compliance with the latest guidelines and standards of WCAG, ADA, Sector 508, PDF U/A, and more. We remediate Microsoft Word documents, Excel sheets, PowerPoint, PDFs, web content in HTML and ePub formats, and transactional documents (invoices and statements).
Acadecraft offers document accessibility remediation services and solutions for a wide range of international compliance standards, including, but not limited to:
Yes. We can remediate existing documents to meet your organization's unique accessibility goals.
Our document remediation process starts with an evaluation of accessibility barriers through web accessibility audit for a quick quote tailored for your needs. Upon your approval, we implement the fixes to overcome barriers followed by multiple reviews. Our experts with disabilities review in the end to ensure all accessibility standards are met.
The time required to make a document accessible is based on its complexity and the number of barriers present in it. Simpler documents may need only a few hours while complex ones may require several days to ensure comprehensive accessibility.
Document accessibility remediation cannot be fully automated. Manual checks are needed to ensure work is done to meet inclusivity and compliance standards specified by ADA, WCAG, and Section 508. Our experts monitor critical parameters of accessibility like color contrast, reading order, adding meaningful alt text to images, meaningful hyperlink text, and more.
No, image descriptions do not have any additional costs. They are a part of the document accessibility remediation solutions we offer for ensuring compliance with Section 508, ADA, and WCAG.
Acadecraft has established itself as a leading-edge technology-driven organization for ensuring accessibility solutions that meet organizational goals. With offer fast turnaround tailored to your needs with round-the-clock support. Our accessibility remediation professionals not only have deep knowledge but also ensure you a seamless experience in achieving your organization’s accessibility goals.