Resources
Guides, analysis and factual comparisons for teams making public documents accessible, written for the people who actually have to do it: clerks, ADA coordinators, accessibility program offices and the IT staff who support them.
The guides and comparisons list their sources, and where a compliance guide makes a regulatory claim, the primary source is linked.
What are you trying to do?
Start from the task rather than the folder. Each row names the one page to open first.
| If you need to | Start with |
|---|---|
| Work out which rule applies to you | The compliance guides: which rule covers your documents8 guides, every regulatory claim cited to its source |
| Find your deadline | The deadline finder for ADA Title II and HHS Section 504Four questions, sources included |
| Understand a topic in depth | The pillar guides on document accessibility12 guides, from remediation to procurement |
| Size your own document backlog | Scan your website for public documents, freeEnter a public URL; no account |
| Compare vendors | The comparisons: DocoMatic against the alternatives2 comparisons, dated and sourced |
| Keep up with changes | The blog: news and analysis on document accessibilityOr subscribe by RSS |
What is published here
Three sections. The counts and dates below are read from the articles themselves, so a section that says it is maintained is.
Guides
Pillar guides on document accessibility: remediation, cost, scanned documents, fillable forms, meeting minutes, policy, procurement and the Title II exceptions.
12 articles
Most recently updated
Blog
News and analysis on document accessibility rules, tooling and public-sector practice.
6 articles
Latest: No charge below threshold: why we bill this way,
Comparisons
Factual, dated comparisons of DocoMatic with the alternatives buyers evaluate, each with a correction path.
2 articles
Most recently updated
Reference material
Not articles, but the things people come here looking for.
Compliance guides
ADA Title II, Section 508, HHS Section 504, WCAG 2.1 AA, PDF/UA, AODA and the European Accessibility Act. 8 guides, each with a review date and a changelog, every regulatory claim cited to a primary source.
ADA Title II deadlines by entity type
The compliance date table, the population rules that decide which date applies, and the edge cases.
Free tools
Check one PDF, scan a whole website, estimate a cost, find your deadline, write alt text. All free to use.
The deadline registry
Every public entity we track, by state: its deadline cohort and, where we have crawled its website, its public document backlog.
Three to begin with
Editors' picks rather than traffic data: the three guides that best show the depth of the set.
- The complete PDF remediation guide
The pillar: what remediation involves step by step, what can be automated, and how to verify the result.
- How much does PDF accessibility cost
Market pricing models and what drives a document up the scale, not just our rates.
- Archived content exceptions: what actually qualifies
The most misunderstood part of the Title II rule, read condition by condition.
Finished reading and ready to fix the documents themselves? See how the DocoMatic platform remediates, verifies and monitors public documents.