Your documents look fine.
That's the problem.
Every document below was posted on a real Texas government website. To a sighted visitor, each one looks polished — which is exactly why most agencies believe they're in better shape than they are. Switch on low vision or a screen reader and the same page falls apart.
These are real files, not mockups: the "before" experience is extracted from the posted PDF, and the "after" is the same file remediated by us. Download both and check our work in your own tools.
Six failures that are invisible to sighted eyes
| The failure | Why it looks okay to you | What a blind or low-vision reader gets | See it live |
|---|---|---|---|
| No tags at all | The layout renders perfectly — tags are invisible in a PDF viewer. | No headings, no reading order, no tables — a formless stream, or silence. | Calendar → |
| Images with no description | The logo, chart, or signature looks great. | "Graphic." That's the entire announcement — whatever it showed is gone. | Agenda → |
| Bold text instead of headings | Sections look clearly labeled — big, bold, obvious. | Bold is decoration, not structure. There is nothing to jump to; the only option is listening to every word. | Minutes → |
| Color-only meaning | The color-coded legend is intuitive at a glance. | For blind and color-blind readers the coding simply doesn't exist — holidays and school days are indistinguishable. | Calendar → |
| "Auto-tagged" on export | Your checker says Tagged ✓ — feels compliant. | Word's auto-tags routinely ship zero headings, silent images, and text mis-tagged as figures. Tagged is not the same as usable. | Agenda → |
| Tables without structure | The grid lines make rows and columns obvious. | Cells read as a run-on word soup with no row or column context — "$1,926 $2,607 3 $4,143…" | Meal form → |
There's a seventh worth naming: scanned, image-only PDFs — common in older uploads — contain no text at all for a screen reader. We OCR those first, then remediate.
Explore the documents
Each opens an interactive side-by-side: the posted file and our remediated version. Try all three modes — good eyesight, low vision, and the screen reader.
School-year calendar
10 → 100The page every family uses — and a color-coded, untagged dead end for blind and color-blind readers.
Experience it →Meal-assistance application
10 → 100A form parents must fill out to feed their kids — that a parent using a screen reader can't even start.
Experience it →Board-meeting agenda
65 → 100Auto-tagged by Word, so it "passes" a quick check — with zero headings and silent images. Tagged ≠ accessible.
Experience it →Board minutes — the trap
90 → 100Passes every automated check on this site — and a blind reader still can't jump to the vote they care about. Scores are a floor, not a finish line.
Experience it →Now try it on your own document.
Upload a PDF, pick the page that matters, and our pipeline will remediate it free — then run this same before-and-after on your own file.