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Pricing and cost
How much does PDF accessibility remediation cost?
DocAccessible charges $5 USD per accepted source page for manual PDF remediation, and the rate is flat regardless of how complex a page is. The agency team takes bulk projects above 500 pages, so the smallest eligible project is 501 pages at $2,505 before applicable tax. Automated remediation is priced separately as a monthly software subscription rather than per page.
How much does DocAccessible cost per month?
DocAccessible software plans are Free at $0, Exchange at $19 per month, Pro at $29 per month, Team at $49 per month, and Organization at $199 per month. Each paid plan raises the monthly document allowance, upload size, seat count, active Exchange cases, and website PDF monitoring limits. Subscriptions run month to month and can be cancelled from the billing portal at any time.
Do you charge per page or per document?
The two paths are priced differently. Software plans are billed per month with a document allowance, so a 90-page report and a two-page memo each count as one document. Manual agency remediation is billed per source page at $5 USD, with no complexity multiplier.
What if my PDF project is 500 pages or fewer?
The DocAccessible agency team focuses on bulk projects above 500 pages, so smaller jobs are not accepted at the per-page rate. For a smaller project, use the software plans to generate and review accessible output yourself, or use Exchange to coordinate an independent remediation vendor through the same workflow.
Is there a free plan, and is a credit card required?
Yes, there is a Free plan and no card is required. It covers three documents per month, files up to 10 MB, automated checks, hosted accessible HTML, a rebuilt tagged PDF, public and unlisted share links, and monitoring of one website with up to 20 PDFs.
What happens when I reach my monthly document limit?
New uploads pause until the next monthly reset or until the plan is upgraded. Existing documents, hosted pages, downloads, and edits stay available, and no automatic overage charges are applied.
Output formats
What is the difference between hosted accessible HTML and a tagged PDF?
Hosted HTML is responsive, fast to publish, easy to edit, and generally gives assistive technology a more reliable reading experience. The automated tagged PDF rebuilds the same content for offline use and may change the original layout or pagination. Keeping the exact source-PDF appearance is a separate manual remediation path.
Will remediation preserve my PDF's exact layout?
Only the manual path is designed to. Automated rebuilding can reflow a document, so pagination and visual placement may change. Manual exact-layout remediation repairs the accessibility structure without intentionally rebuilding the design, although a defect in the source file can still require a discussed visual adjustment.
Can a scanned PDF be tagged automatically?
No. A scanned page is an image with no text layer, so automatic tagging has no structure to work with. DocAccessible detects scanned and OCR-derived pages and routes them to reviewed OCR text recovery or to specialist remediation instead of producing a tag structure that would be wrong.
Can my team edit the remediated result?
Yes. The browser editor adjusts headings, alternative text, reading order, captions, and table structure. Saving runs the accessibility checks again, so the change in findings is visible immediately, and every saved version is retained as release evidence.
Standards and compliance
What accessibility standards does DocAccessible check against?
Every document receives automated checks mapped to WCAG 2.2 Level AA, covering structure, images, headings, tables, landmarks, language, and link text. The generated PDF is aligned to PDF/UA. Layout-critical or high-stakes documents still require manual validation.
Does automated remediation certify WCAG, PDF/UA, or ADA compliance?
No. Automated checking, scores, and generated output assist accessibility work but do not certify conformance, and no provider or automated checker should promise a universal legal guarantee. Reading order, complex tables, charts, forms, and contextual alternative text can require qualified human review with representative assistive technology.
What is the difference between PDF/UA and WCAG?
PDF/UA is a machine-checkable specification for the technical structure of a PDF file, so a checker can verify it deterministically. WCAG is an outcome-oriented standard about whether a person can actually perceive, operate, and understand the content. A file can pass PDF/UA validation and still fail WCAG, which is why the two complement rather than replace one another.
Deadlines
When is the ADA Title II web accessibility deadline?
State and local government entities with a population of 50,000 or more must comply by April 26, 2027. Public entities with a population under 50,000, and special district governments, have until April 26, 2028. The substantive technical requirement is WCAG 2.1 Level AA, and it applies to public-facing documents such as PDFs, not only to web pages.
Free tools
Is there a free PDF accessibility checker?
Yes. DocAccessible publishes six free browser tools with no account required: a website PDF scanner, a PDF-to-HTML converter, an accessibility checker, a tag viewer, an auto-tagger, and a scanned-PDF text recovery tool. The checker runs machine-detectable structural and PDF/UA-oriented checks and keeps the findings that still need manual review.
How can I find every PDF published on a website?
The free DocAccessible website PDF scanner takes a domain and lists the public PDFs the site links to, where each file is linked from, and automated checks on the most-linked files. It runs anonymously in the browser with no script to install and no account.
Working with vendors
Can our existing remediation vendor work through DocAccessible?
Yes. Exchange is included in every software plan, so an existing vendor can be invited to a restricted, case-scoped portal. The workspace receives immutable revisions, records review decisions, and delivers one approved file through an expiring link. External vendors are restricted case participants rather than internal seats, and remediation labor is not included in any software plan.
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