Services directory
Everything EquitableDocs offers.
A directory of services and tools, the Community of Practice, and a free remediation service for students with print disabilities, faculty authors, and library staff. Each item below has a short description and a link to its own page.
00 On this page
Seven things to look at.
01 For universities
Document remediation for universities.
Who it is for: Universities, disability-services offices, libraries, procurement teams, and academic publishers.
What it includes: Needs assessment, sample document analysis, pipeline setup, custom tagging templates for your document families, and a letter of understanding. First batch typically processed within ten working days of enquiry.
Two paths: Per-document remediation at non-commercial cost-only pricing, with volume discounts for institutional batches. Or a 12 to 18 month capacity-building partnership where training and pipeline setup are at no cost, and only travel and on-site logistics are charged at cost-recovery, waivable on need.
02 For library teams
Training and advisory 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.
A dedicated library-services page is in preparation. In the meantime, the universities enquiry form covers library-team requests too.
03 Training programmes
Seven structured programmes.
Who it is for: Faculty authors, disability-services staff, library staff, publication and communications teams, IT leads, and experienced practitioners seeking trainer credentials.
What it includes: Targeted short-term trainings, Trainer-of-Trainers programmes, and staff orientations on accessible documents. Customised to your institutional needs. Available online or in person. Each programme leads to an EquitableDocs completion certificate.
- Orientation and Sensitisation (foundation)
- Creating Accessible Documents from Source (foundation)
- PDF Remediation and Validation (intermediate)
- Accessible EPUB Development (intermediate)
- STEM Document Accessibility (advanced)
- Easy Read Content Creation (intermediate)
- Setting Up an In-House Accessible Document Operation (advanced)
04 STEM document accessibility
Equations, complex tables, multi-format output.
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, with PDF/UA-2 where the toolchain supports it. Validated with veraPDF.
05 Audit and remediation tools
Six tools, each surfacing a different piece of the workflow.
Each tool can be run independently. Institutions that already have one part of the workflow working internally can pick up only the parts they need.
- QCDoc. The flagship audit tool. PDF, Word, PowerPoint. Reports cite five standards and every finding to a specific clause.
- AccessMitra. Convert a PDF into accessible formats: tagged PDF, accessible Word, EPUB. Simple text-based PDFs are delivered straight from automated output. STEM, complex diagrams, and scanned images go through human verification.
- AltBridge. A working space for alt-text writing on figures and diagrams, including STEM. Submissions can be routed to a subject specialist when needed.
- Font Auditor. A font check for any PDF. Flags fonts that cause text to disappear, garble, or break screen readers.
- Accessibility-Safe Compressor. Shrinks PDF files without breaking tags, fonts, alt text, or bookmarks.
- Page Accessibility Coach. A plain-language audit of any web page. Browser extension, runs locally. Tells you what is wrong and how to fix it, without WCAG jargon.
06 Community of Practice
The Document Accessibility Community of Practice.
Who it is for: Remediators, subject experts, disability-services staff, and student advocates working on accessible higher-education documents in the Global South.
What it includes: A peer space, 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. Membership is free, contribution is voluntary, and joining takes two minutes.
07 For students, faculty, library staff
Free document remediation.
Who it is for: Students with print disabilities (blindness, low vision, dyslexia, intellectual disabilities, motor impairments), faculty authors, and library staff anywhere in the world.
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 with MathJax for maths-heavy content.
Cost: Free, always.