Document Accessibility Services

  • Remediate & Test Documents to Meet Section 508 & ADA & WCAG
  • Improve User Experience
  • Widen Audience and Reachability
4.8
4.5
Document Accessibility Services

Trusted by 500+ Companies Globally

Make Your Documents Accessible

Make Your Documents Accessible

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.

Achieve document accessibility goals

Achieve document accessibility goals

Our experts guide through assessment, planning, implementation, and support.

What is an accessible document?

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.

Make Your Documents Accessible

Let’s connect to get you on your way to seamless Document Accessibility.

What We Will Assess

Our work for ensuring Document accessibility includes, but is not limited to the following:

Document Remediation for Accessibility

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.

Document Remediation
Check readability and legibility of text content
Use accessible
Use accessible font
Appropriate usage
Appropriate usage of text and numeral
Document Remediation
Correct reading order with tagging of tiles, headings (H1, H2, H3, etc.)
Document Remediation
Alternative text for logos, images, videos, and other visual elements
Document Remediation
Label simple and complex forms
Descriptive hyperlinks text
Descriptive hyperlinks text
Interactive content
Interactive content is clearly labeled
Enable pointer-free
Enable pointer-free usage of documents
assistive technology
Ensure full compatibility with assistive technology

These are some ways and best practices we follow to ensure ADA document remediation.

Fast & Scalable Document Accessibility Services

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.

PDF Accessibility

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:

Tagging all PDF elements
Tagging all PDF elements (title, subtitles, and headings, tables, charts, graphs)
Editing simple
Editing simple and complex forms
Ensuring
Ensuring the right reading order.
Color contrast
Color contrast
Color contrast
Meaningful alt-text content for non-text elements(images, icons, logos, graphs, and videos)
creation for documents
Bookmark creation for documents with more than nine pages
creation for documents
Updating hyperlink text
multimedia
Captioning, audio descriptions, and transcripts for multimedia. And more.

In the end, we ensure checking accessibility of documents and WCAG, and ADA compliance to ensure PDFs are inclusive for all.

Template Selection
Docx Accessibility

Docx Accessibility

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

Docx Accessibility
Table headers
Docx Accessibility
Font format and size(like, Times New Roman, 12 points or higher is appropriate for most users)
Docx Accessibility
Readability and correctness of language
Docx Accessibility
Tagged titles, and headings for the right reading order
Docx Accessibility
Hyperlink text and list
Docx Accessibility
Table structures with labeled rows and columns
Docx Accessibility
Alt text and description for visual elements like logos, charts, graphs, etc
Docx Accessibility
Tagged simple and complex forms
Docx Accessibility
Captions, descriptions, and transcripts for multimedia
Docx Accessibility
Enabling keyboard navigation for interactive elements

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.

Excel Accessibility

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:

Docx Accessibility
Add meaningful text to the A1 cell.
Docx Accessibility
Using an accessible table format
Docx Accessibility
Label columns and rows
Docx Accessibility
Name tables
Docx Accessibility
Ensure the right color contrast
Docx Accessibility
Accessible font style and size
Docx Accessibility
Alt text for non-visual elements like bars, charts, graphs, icons
Docx Accessibility
A description of cells
Docx Accessibility
Rename worksheets
Docx Accessibility
Delete empty worksheets
Docx Accessibility
Give captions, transcripts
Docx Accessibility
Alt text for multimedia content
Docx Accessibility
Add meaningful hyperlink text
Docx Accessibility
Enabling the use of Magnifier tools, screen support, and more.

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.

Specialized Content
Template Selection

PPT Accessibility

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:

animations, and videos
Alt text for images, logos, animations, and videos.
alternate accessible
Captions, transcripts, and descriptions for multimedia in alternate accessible formats
appropriate numbering
Unique titles and appropriate numbering to each slide
Accessible templates
Accessible templates and fonts, font size, ample color contrast.
comprehension
Readability and comprehension of text.
assistive technology
Table structuring and formatting for compatibility with assistive technology tools.
alternate formats
Creating accessible PDFs as alternate formats.
Hyperlink text
Hyperlink text
informative elements
Tagging and labeling of informative elements
keyboard-assisted
Enabling keyboard-assisted navigation. And more

Acadecraft ensures ADA document remediation and can accept large volumes of work to keep you tension-free.

Benefits of Document Accessibility

Document Accessibility Services
Improved User Experience and Better Brand Image

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.

Ensures Legal Compliance with Industry Standards

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.

Higher Market Reach

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.

What makes us unique

Customized Solutions
Customized Solutions

We provide customized document accessibility solutions to organizations tailored to their unique requirements.

Timely Delivery
Timely Delivery

With our vast team of document remediation services experts, we provide quick delivery of your work within the agreed schedule.

Confidential & Secure
Confidential & Secure

Acadecraft has strict policies for ensuring encryption of data and document information. Rest assured; your accessible documents come with all security controls in place.

Various Alternatives
Various Alternatives of Formats

We provide alternative accessible versions for your accessible document, ensuring higher inclusivity and easier understanding by all users.

Complete Compliance Assured
Complete Compliance Assured

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.

Excellent Client
Excellent Client Support

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.

Expert Team
Expert Team

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.

Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance

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.

Document Accessibility Remediation in Simple Steps!

Methodology
A

Assessment

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.

R

Remediation

Upon your approval, the implementation of recommendations for removing accessibility barriers is done with a seamless process involving several automated and manual reviews.

Q

Quality Check and Assurance

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.

S

Support

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.

Industries We Cover

Publishing Companies

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.

Publishing Companies

Banking, Financial Services and Insurance

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.

Banking, Financial Services and Insurance

Healthcare Companies

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.

Healthcare Companies

Government Organizations

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.

Government Organizations

Nonprofit Organizations

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.

Nonprofit Organizations

FAQ's

?

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:

  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) in the USA
  • Web and Mobile Accessibility Directive in Europe
  • Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) in Australia
  • Referential General Accessibility Administration (RGAA), in France
  • Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards
  • Section 508 Compliance
  • Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT).

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.

Get in Touch with Us for Comprehensive Document Accessibility Solutions

PPT Accessibility Services: For Better Inclusivity
PPT Accessibility Services: For Better Inclusivity
Testimonials

Clients Testimonials