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Awareness sessions
A plain-language session for your team on what document accessibility is, who it affects, and what the law requires. A screen-reader walkthrough shows what an inaccessible document does in practice. No cost.
For government teams
Accessible public documents, at no cost to government.
Departments, directorates of education, and public bodies publish documents the public must be able to read. We run awareness sessions for your teams, train your staff to produce accessible documents in-house, and remediate the documents you already have. For government, all of this is at no cost.
The work maps directly to your duties under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 and the Guidelines for Indian Government Websites and documents, version 3.0.
01 What we do for government teams
Awareness, training, and remediation. All free.
Pick any one of these, or all three. There is no fee, no minimum, and no commitment to start.
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Staff training
We train your staff to produce accessible documents from source and to remediate existing files, so the work continues without us. Delivered online or at your office. No cost. Only travel and on-site logistics are at cost-recovery, and these are waivable on need.
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Document remediation
Send the documents the public needs to read: notices, forms, reports, scheme guidelines, scanned files. We return tagged, screen-reader-ready versions, validated against PDF/UA-1. No cost.
02 The obligations this meets
Your duties under Indian frameworks. We map directly to each.
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RPwD Act 2016
Section 40 requires accessibility standards for information and communication. Sections 16 and 17 cover accessible education and learning materials. Public documents fall squarely within these duties.
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GIGW 3.0
The Guidelines for Indian Government Websites make WCAG 2.1 Level AA compulsory for public digital services, including the documents published on them. Compliance is assessed for government sites.
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Accessible India Campaign (Sugamya Bharat)
The information and communication ecosystem pillar of the campaign covers accessible public documents and government communication, not buildings and transport alone.
03 Start a conversation
Tell us about your team and what you need.
There is no commitment at this stage. We respond within three working days. You can request any combination of an awareness session, staff training, or document remediation.
04 Questions
Frequently asked.
- Is it really free for government, with no catch?
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Yes. Awareness sessions, staff training, and document remediation are at no cost for government teams. The only thing ever charged is travel and on-site logistics when in-person delivery is requested, at cost-recovery with no markup, and even that is waivable where it cannot be met. EquitableDocs is mission-driven, not revenue-driven.
- What do you need from us to start?
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A short conversation. For remediation, a few sample documents so we can see the type, language, and work involved. For training, a sense of who needs it and whether you want it online or on-site. There is no procurement process to begin a pilot.
- What happens to our documents?
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Documents are processed on our servers and deleted from active storage after the agreed retention period. Reviewers see only their assigned pages and cannot download the full document. No content is shared with third parties except specific processing APIs. Anything sensitive can be scoped out before you send it.