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Is your PDF actually accessible?

Check a PDF — or an entire public website — for accessibility barriers that affect screen-reader users and WCAG 2.1 AA readiness. Built for public-sector teams preparing for the ADA Title II web accessibility deadlines.

April 26, 2027 · 50,000+ population  ·  April 26, 2028 · smaller entities and special districts  ·  How the deadline works →

Scan an entire website

Enter a government website and we'll inventory the public PDFs we can find, identify accessibility problems, and flag documents that appear to deserve priority — including current forms and transaction documents.

Takes about a minute. We respect robots.txt and crawl gently.

or check a single file
Drop a PDF here, or click to choose
Up to 40 MB

No account. No email required. Your file is analyzed in memory, never written to disk, and we don't send it to third-party AI or document-analysis services.  ·  Try it with a sample agenda

How it works

  1. Scan. Enter a public website or upload a single PDF.
  2. Understand. We inspect machine-checkable accessibility barriers and explain the results in plain English.
  3. Prioritize. For site assessments, we help separate documents that deserve immediate attention from older content that may qualify for an exception.

Documents are processed in memory and discarded after analysis. No account, no email, no cost.

Not every failing PDF needs the same treatment

A site can have hundreds of inaccessible documents. That does not mean you should blindly remediate every one. Our assessments separate:

Priority documents

Current forms, applications, instructions and other operational files that residents rely on.

Review

Documents where current use or exception status needs a closer look.

Likely exception

Older documents that appear to be strong candidates for the preexisting-document exception. How the exception works →

Finding problems is only half the job

One municipal assessment — Campbell, New York (town), real public data, shown as a sample — found 199 public PDFs, nearly all with accessibility issues. After scoping the remediation need:

1priority documents
198need a closer look
0likely preexisting-document exception
$0in remediation potentially avoided through scoping

Fixing everything blindly would run about $1,406 at our rates; the scoped set comes to $1,406 at most. Based on one municipal assessment — actual scope depends on the documents, their dates, and how they are currently used.

We don't just tell you what fails. We help determine what actually deserves remediation.

See the sample assessment →

Found problems? We can fix them.

We remediate the PDFs that actually need attention — supported accessibility issues such as tag structure, document metadata, image descriptions and form-field labels — then review the repaired files before delivery.

  1. Scan & scopeFind the affected documents and determine the remediation set.
  2. RemediateRepair supported accessibility issues in structure, metadata and forms.
  3. Human review & validationEvery delivered file is re-checked and reviewed before it goes back to you.

Automated remediation. Human-reviewed before delivery.

Need help with remediation? reports@pdfaccessibilitycheck.com

Want to see the deliverable first? See what a full municipal assessment looks like →