The Accessible Documents Initiative offers a set of institutional services and tools, a community of practice, and a dedicated service for students with print disabilities. Each item is listed below with a short description and a link to full detail. Pricing, where applicable, is published on the transparency page.
List of services
1. Accessible Documents for Universities
Who it is for: Universities, disability-services offices, and academic publishers.
What it includes: Needs assessment, sample document analysis, pipeline setup using licensed and open-source tools, custom tagging templates, and a letter of understanding. First batch typically processed within ten working days of enquiry.
Partnership tiers: Affiliate, Contributing, and Strategic. Full tier detail on the partnership page.
Pricing: Affordable and transparent, set at the actual cost of delivery. Full breakdown on the transparency page as it becomes available.
2. Document Accessibility Training and Support for Library Teams
Who it is for: Academic, public, and specialist library teams.
What it includes: Training for library staff on accessible document handling, advisory support for building accessible collections, and remediation workflows tailored to library operations.
Full detail coming soon.
3. Trainings on Creating and Remediating Accessible PDF, Word, PPT, and EPUB
Who it is for: Faculty, disability-services staff, library staff, publication and communications teams, and experienced practitioners seeking trainer credentials.
What it includes: Targeted short-term trainings, Trainer-of-Trainers programmes, and staff orientations on accessible documents. Customised plans to suit institutional needs. Available online or in person. All lead to an The Accessible Documents Initiative completion certificate.
Representative programmes:
PDF Accessibility Essentials (short, foundation)
Creating Accessible Documents from Source (short, foundation)
PDF Remediation with Acrobat Pro (intermediate)
Setting Up an Institutional Pipeline (intermediate)
Who it is for: Universities and publishers producing mathematics, science, engineering, or medical content.
What it includes: Equation extraction to LaTeX and MathML, plain-language alt text for equations written by STEM specialists, accessible tables with correct header scope, and multi-format output including tagged PDF, Word, EPUB, and HTML with MathJax.
Standards met: PDF/UA-1 and PDF/UA-2 where supported. Validated with veraPDF.
A tool to check whether a document meets recognised accessibility standards, flag specific failures, and suggest the minimum fixes needed. Intended for use by disability-services staff, library staff, and publishers before a document is released.
Full detail coming soon.
6. The Document Accessibility Community of Practice
Who it is for: People in India who want to build professional skills in document accessibility: remediators, recent graduates, career changers, students.
What it includes: Free training, opportunities to contribute to real documents for real students, peer review, and a Community of Practice Certificate after ten documents and peer-reviewed quality. This is volunteer, mission-driven work. No promises are made about compensation.
Who it is for: Students in India who are blind, have low vision, dyslexia, or another print disability, and who need an academic document (textbook, assignment, handout) made accessible.
What it includes: Free remediation of the submitted document. Accepted formats: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, scanned pages. Output in the format you request: tagged PDF, Word, EPUB, or HTML.