ADA Remediation Service

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) passed Congress in 1990. It set forth standards that would help ensure equal access to information for people with specific challenges. Our experienced and reliable team knows how to ensure your documents and online presence is fully compliant.

It is difficult to tell when your PDFs are compliant just by looking unless you are testing using the proper tools. You will need to open your PDF in your editing software (such as Adobe Acrobat) and look at the document’s properties. Lakeshore Consulting is happy to help along with providing training to your staff.

PDF tags are the key to accessing a PDF’s content with assistive technologies. Tags are assigned to each page element in the document and stores some information about it.

If your document is improperly tagged, it’s not accessible. One example of this is neglecting to specify the reading order of your tags.

Alternative text gives a meaningful description of a figure. Without alt text, a person using a screen reader will hear there is a graphic on the page, but won’t know what it is, why it’s there or how it’s important.

If the PDF is a scanned document, each page is treated like one big picture. Running OCR (Optical Character Recognition) converts scanned text to searchable/taggable/readable text, which makes the document accessible.

For data tables to be read correctly by assistive technology, the headers need to be defined, and their role (column or row) assigned correctly.