PDF Accessibility Intelligence

Your Government Website Has a PDF Problem. WPPersona Solves It Before Citizens Find It First.

The average government website hosts 200–5,000 PDF documents. Most were never accessibility-tagged. Under DOJ's ADA Title II rule, every one is a compliance liability. WPPersona's PDF engine is the only solution in the government CMS market that addresses this natively · at upload, before the document reaches a citizen.

The Scale of the Problem

You Don't Have a Few Inaccessible PDFs. You Have Hundreds.

Government document archives accumulate over decades. Budget reports from 2009. Meeting minutes from 2015. Forms re-exported in 2018 from a system that never supported PDF/UA. Each year's staff uploads files in whatever format was convenient. The result is a document library where the majority of PDFs fail at least one accessibility criterion · and most agencies don't know which ones, or how many.

No accessibility tags

The document has no structural tags · screen readers cannot parse headings, lists, or reading order.

Scanned image files

The PDF is a photograph of a document. It contains no machine-readable text whatsoever.

Missing document title metadata

Assistive technology cannot identify the document when the title field is blank or incorrect.

No language declaration

Translation tools and screen readers fail to process documents without a declared language.

PDF version below 1.4

The file format predates tag support · accessibility compliance is structurally impossible.

Missing navigation bookmarks

Users cannot navigate long documents without bookmarks · every page requires manual scrolling.

How It Works

PDF Compliance Intelligence · Built Into Every Upload

WPPersona doesn't require a separate tool, a manual scan step, or an external vendor. The compliance pipeline runs automatically, every time a document is added.

01

Upload

The moment a PDF is uploaded to WPPersona, it is scanned within seconds. The engine extracts accessibility signals from the document structure.

02

Score

A 0–100 risk score is calculated across five dimensions: tag structure, document type, metadata, PDF version, and logical reading order.

03

Surface

A color-coded risk badge (red / yellow / green) is attached to the document and made visible throughout every editor workflow.

04

Remediate

Plain-language fix instructions are shown to editors: "Re-export with PDF/UA tagging enabled" · not jargon, not a spec reference.

05

Monitor

A compliance dashboard shows every PDF on the site, filterable by risk level, department, and document age · so nothing falls through the cracks.

Risk Score Thresholds

High Risk · 45+

Action required before publishing. Document blocked from going live.

Medium Risk · 20–44

Review recommended. Document can publish with reviewer acknowledgment.

Low Risk · Below 20

Cleared for publishing. No accessibility barriers detected.

Free Tool

Free ADA PDF Audit Tool

Enter your government website URL. WPPersona crawls every page, finds every PDF, and delivers a full compliance risk report in minutes. No account required. No credit card. Just the truth about your document library.

What you'll see in your report:

  • Total PDF count across all pages
  • High / Medium / Low risk breakdown
  • Per-document risk score and issue summary
  • Shareable report URL for your team or vendor
Run Your Free Audit Now
Free Tool

See Your Agency's PDF Risk in 2 Minutes

Enter your government website URL. We crawl every page, scan every PDF, and deliver a full ADA compliance risk report. No account. No credit card.

Run Free Audit

Talk to Someone Who Speaks Government

Our team understands government procurement, ADA compliance timelines, and what it takes to migrate a government website. Free 20-minute demo. No hard sell.

  • Full platform walkthrough for your agency type
  • Answers to procurement and security questions
  • Honest timeline and migration assessment
Schedule a Free Demo